General News of Thursday, 4 May 2017Source: classfmonline.comBonded diploma nurses failed exams – Agyeman-ManuMinister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-ManuThe financial clearance for most of the unemployed diploma nurses who besieged the Ministry of Health last week demanding to be posted had delayed because “almost all” of them had failed their final examinations and had only passed after a re-sit, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has revealed. The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses, comprising psychiatric nurses, general nurses, and midwives, on Monday April 24 picketed the ministry to pile further pressure on the government to accelerate their recruitment, saying they had remained jobless having left school in 2015 and since completing their national service in August 2016. The nurses, numbering over 150, only agreed to go home on Wednesday April 26, having spent two nights sleeping rough at the ministry’s car park to press home their demands. He said of the nurses: “Your year group completed school in 2015. Almost all of you had a referral, so when you had to re-sit the exams, we had begun the application for the financial clearance of your colleagues who had graduated.

Source: GhanaWeb May 04, 2017 12:22 UTC