A group of bonded unemployed Physician Assistants are lamenting over government’s failure to engage them months after they received their financial clearance.
The 102 health professionals trained by the Kintampo College of Health include graduates from 2013, 2014 and 2015, who have not been engaged.
[contextly_sidebar id=”pYsYvcf3sJjrYi83RAt9HW0XCSbUTE0h”]The group picketed several times before their financial clearance was granted in January this year., 2018.
According to Spokesperson for the group, Senyo Setsofia, after taking close to three years to secure financial clearance, they do not understand why the Health Ministry is delaying still delaying their postings.
“The Secretary to the Human Resource Director came around and told our representatives that, they should go and come on Friday, that is how it has been. In fact, way back in December, when we went to the Ministry, we could not meet the minister, but we met the deputy Minister and we came to a resolution that they will help secure the clearance. We thought things will move faster, but January till now almost five months, nothing has changed,” he said.
About 20 physician assistants who graduated in 2015, besieged the Ministry of Health over their delayed posting.
According to them, over 115 of their fellow professionals have not been posted between 2013 and 2015.
In May last 2017, about 500 jobless health professionals staged a protest at the Ministry of Health to demand immediate employment.
According to them, the government has failed to employ them a year after they completed their academic programmes.
The Allied Health Professionals, comprising graduates of the College of Health in Kintampo and the School of Dispensing Optics in Oyoko, said their protest has become necessary because all previous attempts to get the government to post them to health facilities have proven futile.
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By: Farida Yusif/citinewsroom.com/Ghana