[ 2021-02-08 ]

Recruitment of doctors, dentist to begin tomorrow — MoH

BY: Jasmine Arku

A statement signed and issued by the acting Chief
Director of the ministry, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari,
said the recruitment would cover only those who
had permanently registered with the Medical and
Dental Council and had “completed their house
job”.

“Qualified applicants are requested to formally
apply on the Ministry of Health online application
portal and follow the instructions to select the
preferred agency under the ministry. The deadline
for the submission of applications is 6 p.m. on
Friday, February 19, 2021,” it added.

Previous recruitment

In 2019, the ministry recruited unemployed
privately and publicly trained nurses in the
country.

The ministry, in a statement then, said the
recruitment process was for those who had received
their certification between 2012 and 2016.

That was after the Ghana Health Service (GHS) had
announced that it would be giving some 20,084
nurses financial clearance to be employed in
healthcare institutions across the country.

A similar process took place in May last year to
recruit medical doctors and dentists who had
completed their house job and were permanently
registered with the Medical and Dental Council.

The government has, in the past three years,
recruited 92,000 nurses, leaving no backlog of
graduate nurses in the country.
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This follows the financial clearance the MoH
received to recruit more nurses to augment the
national numbers.

Protests

In January 2020, graduate nurses and midwives who
were yet to be employed by the MoH, after they had
completed their education, threatened a
demonstration to press home their unemployed
status.

They said the government’s failure to employ
them, with the excuse of not having the financial
muscle to pay them, was untenable.

According to the group, only the 2016 batch of
graduates had been employed then, and that all
others, including some who completed in 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017, had not yet been
cleared for employment.

Source - Daily Graphic

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