General News of Saturday, 19 November 2016Source: citifmonline.comAccountant hot for slashing trainee nurses allowanceHappy nurse shows off her allowance. The Ministry of Health has asked one Bismark Duadua Mahama, an accountant at the Kumasi Nurses and Midwifery Training College to step aside, for reducing the temporary restored allowances meant for trainee nurses at the school. A letter addressed to the accountant and signed by the Minister of Health, said he gave the students GHc360 instead of GHc450. The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees’ Association (GNMTA), says government is attempting to throw dust into their eyes by current payment arrangement. Speaking to Citi News, the President of the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association, Godwin Asabire Akazeem, said government is only playing politics with the matter since the terms of payment is still unclear.

Source: GhanaWeb November 19, 2016 06:14 UTC