We do not owe 8 months allowances to nurses, midwives - Health Ministry

The Ministry of Health has refuted claims that the government owes members of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association eight months’ worth of allowances.

The Ministry said it does not owe trainees 8 months allowances, neither has it stopped payment of trainee allowances to students of government health training institutions, as indicated in some publications.

This comes after the Ghana Nurses and Midwife Trainees’ Association, threatened to embark on a nationwide demonstration if the government fails to pay eight months of allowance arrears allegedly owed its members.

"The last payment was made in November 2020, but they were the payments for March, April, and May 2020. So since May 2020, Allowances have come to a halt. The government promised us monthly allowance payments but hasn’t fulfilled them" the National Secretary of the Ghana Nurses and Midwife Trainees’ Association, Lambert Nsobilla told citinewsroom.

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“We are not only going to say that this will be the last resort. If it takes conferences or walking on the streets to cry to government for the over GHS56,000 we are owed [to be paid], we will do just that,” he stated.

But the Ministry in a press statement signed by the Chief Director at the Ministry of Health, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari, said the claims by the group are not true.

The Ministry in the statement however said it was on course to paying the three-month arrears of the trainees.

Read full statement below