The Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees’ Association (GNMTA) is urging the government to promptly disburse all outstanding allowances owed to its members.
The association has raised concerns that the non-payment of these allowances for a span of two years has placed an unbearable burden on trainee nurses and midwives.
The National President of the Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees’ Association, Pascal Adumbisa, emphasized in an interview with Citi News that they are committed to employing all reasonable and lawful means to ensure that these allowances are promptly disbursed.
“We are owed about almost two years and others are also owed about eighteen months and those in the second year are owed about sixteen months and some are owed fourteen months,” Pascal stated.
Leadership within the association has stated that their attempts to engage with the government, particularly through the Ministry of Health, to secure the release of these unpaid allowances have yielded no positive results.
“So we issued a statement on July 25 to the government that it should come through for us because we have had engagements with stakeholders on the issue of allowance, but we have not had any response from the Ministry,” he said.