Private health graduates bemoan biased govt recruitment

Privately trained health workers are asking government to rescind the decision to recruit only nurses and midwives who were trained in public institutions.

According to the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions, the decision has rendered many privately trained nurses unemployed.

The call comes on the back of the directive by government to public health facilities to begin the recruitment of trained nurses and midwives who graduated from their programs in 2015.

Speaking to Starr News on the directive, President of the association of health training institutions Obed Bediako said the apparent discrimination could have a negative impact on health delivery in the country.

“It’s unfair for the government to decide to recruit only nurses it trained. We all wrote the nursing exams and passed so why must the other be given preferential treatment only because of where she or he was trained?

“Someone could be trained in a public institution and become a bad nurse and another could be trained in a private school and become a very god nurse. So I think it is only fair that employment to the sector is based on qualification not just where the person schooled,” he said.