Graduate unemployed Nurses and Midwives to demonstrate in Kumasi on Monday
Graduate unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association(GUNMA), are set to embark on a mammoth demonstration on Monday, April 8, 2024 in Kumasi n the Ashanti Region over lack of employment.
About 500 graduate nurses and midwives are expected to hit the streets of the garden city to express their displeasure about having to stay home years after completing school.
Speaking to Daakyehene Ofosu Agyemang, host of New York-based Adinkra Radio, Morning show, the Public Relations Officer of the Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association(GUNMA) Sarah Mensah disclosed that there about 60,000 to 70,000 unemployed nurses and midwives waiting to be employed.
She sad she and her colleagues have stayed home enough and it is time for them to be posted to the various health facilities to work.
“We want the Ministries of Health and Finance to work together and get them employed. We have stayed home for far too long after acquiring a lot of knowledge in school. We want to go out there and help save lives, that is why we went to school. The government must help us realize our dreams by getting us employed. We are not happy the way we are being treated, enough is enough. Those of us have been staying home since 2020 after completing school. This’s not fair,” Sarah Mensah said.
The unemployed graduate nurses and midwives have fix 16th April for another demonstration in Accra.
Source: Adinkraradio.com