Recruit of SHS graduates as community health workers as a reward for loyalty and not qualification

Dear Mr. Neutral, allow the politicians to do their politics because they understand the game and they also know what they want to achieve as politicians.

I have heard several self-acclaimed neutrals making noise about the government trying to recruit SHS graduates to support health care delivery in our health care system, with the notion that the SHS graduates are not professionally trained hence government should not recruit them.

For your information, the NPP government has just three years left to end their 8yrs tenure, and therefore it is time to reward loyalty and not qualification.

Why am I saying this? haven’t you seen journalists being appointed as board members of government agencies, do you think they are more qualified than other Ghanaian journalists, definitely not, but it is an opportunity for them to also feast as the reward for their support to the NPP during the 2016 and the 2020 elections.

To cut the long story short, we have a lot of friends and colleagues who completed SHS since 2015 and have still not been able to further their education due to financial constraints and have been very loyal to the NPP. Some were polling station agents in 2012, 2016, and 2020 respectively and therefore deserve to also feast and through this recruitment, others will do some little savings to further their education.

Now to GRNMA l, I have read a letter purporting to be emanating from your outfit. The said letter is one of the smartest letters I have read this year. Why do I say so? According to the said letter, GRNMA is not saying the government shouldn’t recruit SHS graduates to work within the health sector, but they don’t want the name (Nurse) to be attached to the SHS recruits. What a funny country?

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We are all much aware that GRNMA is good at fighting for belts and titles, and the current letter from them is never news to us. We the poor Ghanaian nurses who pay our dues to GRNMA only for them to go and agree on mega 4% salary increment for us and when the masses are complaining, they remain mute isn’t surprising because in the African culture it is taboo to be eating while talking and therefore those who eat don’t talk.

Hmmmmm, what an unfair world we find ourselves. I am Very certain that government will soon come out with a statement to clear the minds of Ghanaians and to let Ghanaians know that the SHS recruits are not community nurses but rather community health workers and the GRNMA letter issue will be settled and thrown into the dustbin.

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Now to the unemployed nurses and midwives, please stop fighting the poor SHS graduates, because it is not their fault that you are still at home, and the government hasn’t said they can’t employ them and employ you as well. Please mobilize yourselves and push the government for your employment if you think you deserve a fair share of the national cake. This i know will be a very difficult tax since we are not in an election year and the government may become reluctant in addressing your concerns.

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Thank you and best wishes to my Junior colleagues of the noble profession, who are still at home unemployed.

By
Akugri Gadafi Avokbil

Former GNMTA national pro
Youth activist and a
Concern Nurse

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