Gov't urged to provide funding for nurses hostel

Authorities of the Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nursing School at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Korle-Bu have appealed to government to provide funding for the construction of the school’s 300 bed capacity hostel.

Mr Kwaku Asante-Krobea, Principal of the School, said the lack of governmental financial support for the past five years had posed financial constraints to the School authorities and students.

“The cost in running the institution [keeps increasing] accounting for high school fees payment.

“And the lack of accommodation for students has compelled the school to de-bordenise 25 per cent of students,” he said.

Mr Asante-Krobea made the appeal at the ninth graduation, grand award and passing out ceremony in Accra on Thursday.

He also appealed for financial support for the running of the school’s administration to help remove the burden on management as well as the hardship of students, most of whom were denied sponsorship by the health facilities they worked for.

Mr Asante-Krobea, who is also the President of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association, said in spite of the highlighted constraints, the school had achieved substantial credibility and good image as the only post-basic institution that trained specialised nurses in Peri-Operative and Critical Care.

“We proudly count the following achievements as creditable enough to attract favor and goodwill for stakeholder and ministerial support,” he said.

Mrs Eva Mensah, Acting Deputy Director of Nursing and Midwifery, urged the graduands to return to their various hospitals and offer the needed services.

In all 90 students, comprising of 45 from the Peri-Operative class with the remaining 45 being Critical Care Nurses graduated after under-going a 15- month training.

Ms Irene Narh, a Critical Care Nursing student, was adjudged the overall best student for the 2014/2015 academic year after receiving six awards in ten subjects.

The School of Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nursing was established in 1996 to train registered diploma and degree holding nurses to an advanced level to provide theater nursing and critical care nursing.