Government of Ghana has said that it has settled the final part of the nurses’ trainee allowance to all qualified beneficiaries for the 2018/2019 academic year.
According to a press statement signed and issued in Accra by Chief Director for the Ministry of Health, Nana Kwabena Adjei-Mensah said an amount of GHC198.2million was released to defray the allowances of all trainees in public health training institutions from September 2018 to June 2019.
This was in fulfillment of government’s commitment to restore the nursing trainees’ allowance in 2017, and each trainee nurse was paid an amount GHc400.00 for months in each academic year to support their academic and clinical work.
The statement also noted that the Ministry was working tirelessly to ensure that trainees who could not receive their allowances due to their e-zwich cards are paid immediately.
It’s further urge trainees who might have any other challenges with their payments to contact heads of their school for redress.
