CPP govt to absorb all nurses to revamp health sector
The presidential candidate of the Convention People's Party (CPP),Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has stated that the CPP, if voted into power, would absorb nurses from both public and private nurses training institutions.
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This, according to him, was part of the CPP government's policy to revamp the health sector to end the wastage of "trained nurses" remaining at home.
Addressing a gathering at Manso Nkwanta in the Amansie West Constituency on day three of his "intensive six-day Apam Fofor" tour of the Ashanti Region, Mr Greenstreet described the situation where trained nurses were jobless and remained at home as "unfortunate and irresponsibility on the part of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
He said the NDC government had failed Ghanaians by refusing to create a conducive health environment for the people.
Nurse-Patient ratio
He noted that just as there was poor doctor-patient ratio, so was the situation deplorable concerning nurse-patient ratio.
He used his personality — a person with disability — as an example, recalling the poor health condition he went through at the hospital due to insufficient number of nurses to attend to him.
He further recalled that having been at the hospital for a year, not only did he observe the poor ratio syndrome, but the inadequate medical equipment as well.
For that reason, he said if voted into office, the CPP government would adopt the best strategies to equip all health facilities in the country and staff them with the required number of health personnel, especially doctors and nurses.
Better Ghana has nothing on health
He told the gathering that the NDC had disappointed Ghanaians on its Better Ghana Agenda in the area of health and the best example was the only hospital in the area.