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Health News of Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Source: Thomas Sosu

Okoe Vanderpuije commits to support midwives and nurses

Greater Accra district of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association with the former Mayor Greater Accra district of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association with the former Mayor

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije says he would do his best to support midwives and nurses in his constituency.

According to the former Mayor of Accra, nurses and midwives experience numerous challenges in their quest to offer good services to pregnant mothers during delivery due to the inadequate infrastructure in the constituency.

But these Okoe Vanderpuije says he will do his best of the elected Member of Parliament to assist nurses and midwives get whatever they need to provide quality health services in the constituency.

“I will continue working with you in my capacity as an MP and in my own personal capacity as a human being to support you in your fundraising, projects and whatever you need that by the grace of God I can support you to advance the course of your objectives and your delivery of health services to our dear country. So you can count on me as your MP if any of your issues comes to parliament we will do our best to support you,” Okoe Vanderpuije said.

The MP made this passionate statement when the Greater Accra district of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) paid him a visit at his office in Ablekuma South to present to him a citation for his effortless support to the health fraternity.

The Greater Accra Chairperson of the GRNMA, Margaret Ohenewaa Yeboah said the decision to celebrate and recognize Okoe Vanderpuije was due to his sense of commitment and respect to the Nursing and Midwifery fraternity especially the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association and beyond.

She also called on government to employ trained nurses into hospitals because a number of aged nurses go on retirement annually and government does not replace their vacuums with young nurses and midwives causing hospitals to be populated with more patients and less nurses.