A vote for NPP will keep you unemployed for another four years

Minority Parliament has cautioned unemployed nurses to vote massively against the New Patriotic Party if they want to be employed.

According to them, a vote for the New Patriotic Party will mean they will have to stay home for another four years before they are posted.

This comes after the Ministry of Health announced that it will be recruiting 15, 200 nurses and midwives after the Finance Ministry gave clearance.

To the Minority, the move is a mere political gimmick which should not be countenanced by other nurses who do not fall under the year being posted.

“It is nothing more than an electioneering strategy to deceive nurses who have had to suffer in some cases four years of unemployment to reelect into power a government that if elected will wait for another election cycle before opening recruitment portals into the Ghana Health Service.

This political gimmickry has precedence which can easily be cited. In the first term of Akufo-Addo government of which Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was the head of economic management team, general recruitment of health workers, especially nurses and midwives was deferred to the period spanning November 4 to November 15 2020 a few weeks to elections as part of a broad campaign strategy.

Once voted into office, health graduates had to suffer a similar fate of suffering for four years to be recruited into the Ghana Health Service, resulting into poor health care delivery owing to a high attrition rate of highly skilled healthcare workers without replacement from 251, 527 in 2021 to a low of 182,233 in 2023″.