18 Kwadaso nursing students sacked
Eighteen students of the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) Nurses Training College at Kwadaso in Kumasi have been sacked for poor academic work.
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Addressing the ninth matriculation of the college in Kumasi, the Principal, Mr Daniel Atta-Tuffour, said the college would not compromise on poor academic work, since students would leave school to deal with precious human lives.
He, therefore, charged the students to take their studies seriously to avoid being dismissed.
A total of 342 fresh students, made up of 214 females and 128 males — the biggest in a single year since the inception of the college — were matriculated.
Mr Atta-Tuffour said the Ministry of Health (MoH) had assured nursing students in public training institutions that the government had no intention of withdrawing their allowances.
He said the assurance should calm down the fear among trainee nurses that they would suffer the situation of teacher trainees whose allowances had been withdrawn.
The principal said the government’s assurance was a challenge to the students to study hard and come out as responsible nurses ready to serve the country, even under difficult conditions.
He spoke against the practice of some nurses tending to play with their mobile phones when patients needed their attention.
Mr Atta-Tuffour also deplored the situation in which students seeking admission to some educational and professional institutions had to ‘buy’ their way through.
He said admission was not for sale at the SDA Nurses Training College, even though some parents attempted to influence admission.
Touching on clinical training for trainee nurses, the principal said it was regrettable that some hospitals charged the students for their practical training.
“I appeal to the Ministry of Health to do something about this, since it is a huge financial burden on students and parents,” he said.
The President of the Central Ghana Conference of the SDA Church, Pastor Anthony K. Yeboah, said the church had secured a 20-acre land at Barekese in the Ashanti Region for the construction of new premises for relocation of the college.
He said the church took serious interest in the health of the people because a “healthy people make a healthy nation”.
