Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that over 298 students of the Tamale Community Nursing Training School in the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region are angry over their allowance.
According to the students, the allowance that the school received was not enough to cater for the entire student body and so the school decided to ballot YES/ NO for the money to be shared among the students.
Government started paying student nurses GH?450 as their three months allowance which means that 60 out of the student body will not benefit from the allowances, should the school authority decide to go along with the balloting.
The situation has created some tension amongst the students who disagree with the school administration and rather suggested that the money be shared equally to the students no matter how much they are given.
There are widespread speculations that the scrapped allowance was restored for political purposes in order to win the student nurses votes.
Some students who spoke to DAILY GUIDE on condition of anonymity said the entire student body has agreed that if the school does not share the allowance equally amongst them, none of them would collect the GH? 450 at all.
They explained that some of them would not be helped if their colleagues do not benefit from the allowance, adding that anything can happen because most of their seniors completed school without getting a pesewa.
The student body appealed to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to come to their aid so that they would also benefit from the allowance that most of their colleagues from various schools across the country have benefitted.
When DAILY GUIDE visited the school, the Assistant Principal Alhassan Sukurazo said the school has given out the allowances to the students but could not tell if the entire students received the money.
“All I know is that government gave out students allowance for three months and I have seen students going in and out of the accounts office to take their allowance, that’s all I can say about it,” he said.
FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale