Aggrieved Health Professionals will storm the Ministry of Health(MOH) to protest over government delays in posting them into public health institutions.
A group of 500 Health Professionals will picket at the Health ministry today, May 8, 2017.
According to the Coalition, comprising of Health Professionals from the College of Health in Kintampo and the School of Dispensing Optics in Oyoko, this has become necessary because several calls made to government to get them posted have yielded no results.
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A statement issued by the group said "As citizens and not spectators, we can only fight for our share in the employment of health professionals after realizing we were not part of the just released financial clearance for over 4,800 clinicians (only) of whom we completed, and/or served with in the same year frame.
"We are aware the government is in a hurry. We therefore don’t want our issue to be an oversight, hence we employing the now efficacious way – PICKETING, to register our displeasure and .demand our right."
The action by the Allied Health Professionals comes weeks after a similar one by the Coalition of Unposted Bonded Diploma Nurses.
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However, government has suspended all recruitment activities for the 8,634 nurses and other health staff until further notice.
The government in a statement issued by the sector Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu clarified that the suspension was not outright cancellation of the recruitment process.
According to the ministry, this was to enable them clear outstanding issues related to the financial clearance.