KATH nurses demand extra duty allowances

Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 8 March ?99

Nurses at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have given the Ministry of Health up to Friday, March 19, for the payment of their extra duty allowances or they will advise themselves.

A statement issued in Kumasi at the weekend and signed by Mr Solomon Ntri, secretary of the KATH branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA), said even though doctors have been paid their extra duty allowances, nurses have been left out.

It recalled that the Minister of Health, Mr Samuel Nuamah- Donkor himself issued a statement saying that nurses in public sector institutions would also be paid extra duty allowances during the junior doctors strike. "The GRNA therefore wishes to remind the Minister that the payment of the extra duty allowances must cover every nurse in the public sector health