Government urged to assist health training institutions

Three hundred and twenty students were matriculated to take various courses in Health Assistant Clinical and Laboratory Technicians, each of which take two years, and Healthcare which takes one year.

He said human capital needed to be well developed to create and promote economic growth and help reduce poverty and stressed the need for public-private partnership to promote the attainment of the country’s health goals. 

 Outlining some of the future plans to enhance the smooth operation of the school, Dr Achaw Duah said the institution would soon introduce courses in midwifery and other allied health courses like physiotherapy, ultrasonography, and general nursing programmes.

He added that a special ICT resource centre to promote health education, as well as long distance and tele-health and tele-medicine practices, would also be introduced.

A Chief Nursing-Midwifery Officer of the Ministry of Health, Mr George Kumi Kyeremeh, who administered the matriculation oath to the students, urged them to study hard to uplift the image of the nursing profession, in conformity with their oath.

The Deputy Director of Nursing Services of Kaneshie Polyclinic, Ms Alexandrina Addo, in her address asked the students to focus on their studies and urged the students to be caring, polite, honest and tolerant, which are the basis of their profession.

The Principal of the school, Mrs Hajia Balchisu Iddrisu, advised the students to always remember their matriculation oath and seriously abide by the rules and regulations of the school.  

Story by Salomey Appiah