{"id":1353,"date":"2019-08-16T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2019-08-16T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:30:58","slug":"govt-pays-nursing-training-allowances-for-2019-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/govt-pays-nursing-training-allowances-for-2019-academic-year","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t pays nursing training allowances for 2019 academic year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that government has settled all arrears for trainee nurses under the 2018-2019 academic year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only the best nurses will be posted abroad &#8211; Health Ministry<\/p>\n<p>It said the allowances were arrears from September, 2018 to June, 2019 cost a total of GHS198,200,000.<\/p>\n<p>The MoH said each trainee nurse received GHS400 for 10 months in each academic year to support their academic and clinical works.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Ministry\u201d is also working assiduously to ensure that trainees who could not receive their allowances owing to challenges with the Ezwich cards are paid immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trainees who have other challenges with payment have been advised: \u201cto contact the Heads of their schools for redress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allowances of both teacher and nurse trainees were withdrawn by the erstwhile NDC administration after it complained they limited the intake into the training institutions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1354\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_175352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_175352.jpg 480w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190816_175352-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu<\/p>\n<p>It was further argued that it was unfair for nursing and teacher trainees to receive allowances when other tertiary students didn\u2019t enjoy same.<\/p>\n<p>There have, however, been pockets of demonstrations by the trainees over irregular payments of the allowances.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu, noted all arrears had been cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that government has settled all arrears for trainee nurses under the 2018-2019 academic year. Only the best nurses will be posted abroad &#8211; Health Ministry It said the allowances were arrears from September, 2018 to June, 2019 cost a total of GHS198,200,000. 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