8,073 nurses to be employed by the Health Ministry following clearance from Finance Ministry
The Ministry of Finance has cleared the Ministry of Health to go ahead to employ 8,073 Nurse Assitant Clinical and Nurse Assistant Preventives.
A letter sighted by Salt 95.9 FM and dated June 9, 2020 from the Ministry of Finance addressed to the Ministry of Health disclosed the details of the new employment to be carried out.
The letter, signed by Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei-Opare said, “The Ministry of Health is hereby granted financial clearance to enable the Ministry post eight thousand, and seventy-six (8,076) Nurse Assistant Clinical and Nurse Assistant Preventive who completed in 2017 from various Public Health Training Institutions.”
The statement further added that “The Ministry of Health is to ensure that the Nurse Assistant Clinical and Nurse Assistant Preventive staff have their documents processed in time and placed on the Mechanized Payroll to enable the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department effect payment of their salaries. Meanwhile, the effective date of the appointed person should not be earlier than 1st November 2020”.
