The Ghana Nursing and Midwifery Trainees Association (GNMTA) has kicked against admission fees for the 2016/2017 academic year.
The leadership of GMNTA has described as exorbitant and a ploy to deny the indigent students into the various nursing colleges the decision of the Nurses and Midwifery Council to increase the admission fees of the 2016/2017 academic year exceedingly.
Students who have gained admissions into the various nursing and midwifery training colleges across the country are to pay a total of about GH¢4,850 as admission fees for the 2016/2017 academic year, a situation the student body finds worrying.
The National Chairman of GMNTA, Godwin Akazee, who has been speaking to Kapital News on the issue, said, “We were engaged in the billing process of the 2016/2017 academic year fees, only for the one that has been approved by the ministry come out and the schools were supposed to have specific things that they can add and you realise that the ones they have added is even more than what the ministry has approved without consultation with local board of the school.”
He said when things are not streamlined by authorities, “it will come to a time it’s only the rich who can do nursing.”
“Let’s consider our counterparts coming from the north.., how many cows will my father be able to sell for 48million for me to go for a semester?” he lamented, tasking the government to take a keen interest in the health sector education and find lasting solutions to the various problems so that nursing will not become the preserve of the rich.
Already, GNMTA has pending issues with government over the non-payment of their school fees, trainee allowances, clinical charges, utility and feeding bills, among many others.
He has, therefore, warned government to be prepared to face their wrath, if their grievances are not addressed by the end of the week.
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