{"id":43138,"date":"2022-07-12T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=43138"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:08:40","slug":"nurse-midwife-trainees-kick-against-calls-to-scrap-allowances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=43138","title":{"rendered":"Nurse, midwife trainees kick against calls to scrap allowances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees\u2019 Association has appealed to the government not to scrap the Trainee Nurse and Midwife allowances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf even the country is in hardship, will the government refuse to pay workers? Of course not,\u201d the General Secretary of the Association, Blessing Ampofo, said to&nbsp;<strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we vacate, and we go home, we go on our clinical assistantships, and it is this same money that we use for transportation,\u201d Ms. Ampofo explained further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pushback follows calls by Civil Society Organisations to the government to abolish the system as part of measures to deal with the current economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghana\u2019s return to the International Monetary Fund has also prompted speculation about policies that will be jettisoned by the government to save money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Ampofo, urged the government not to heed the suggestions, but rather to focus on paying all allowances and arrears owed to the trainee nurses and midwives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it had been 10 months since some nurses received their allowances, despite assurances from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe also have students who have never received their allowances. The government is owing them 20 months and more,\u201d Ms. Ampofo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEND A STORY:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you have a story for us or need a promotion \/ advertisement? Submit them via our email\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:dannyboy744@gmail.com\">dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via on +233 26677777<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees\u2019 Association has appealed to the government not to scrap the Trainee Nurse and Midwife allowances. \u201cIf even the country is in hardship, will the government refuse to pay workers? Of course not,\u201d the General Secretary of the Association, Blessing Ampofo, said to&nbsp;Citi News. \u201cWhen we vacate, and we go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nurse, midwife trainees kick against calls to scrap allowances - Kumasi Online TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=43138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nurse, midwife trainees kick against calls to scrap allowances - Kumasi Online TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees\u2019 Association has appealed to the government not to scrap the Trainee Nurse and Midwife allowances. \u201cIf even the country is in hardship, will the government refuse to pay workers? 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