Grnma On UK Recent Ban On Ghanaian Health Workers

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According to David Tenkorang, general secretary of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), the senior health professionals who should be mentoring the new ones are part of the ongoing “brain drain” of health professionals.

He warned that the delivery of healthcare in Ghana will suffer severely if this scenario was not resolved right away.

After mentioning that nurses’ and midwives’ earnings aren’t the best, Mr. Tenkorang pinpointed what is causing the brain drain among healthcare professionals.

Additionally, he claimed that health personnel’ working conditions are generally subpar.

He was addressing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) and the United Kingdom’s red listing of Ghana (UK).

Ghana was listed among 54 nations that UK companies in the health and social care sector should avoid recruiting from because of its lower-than-50 UHC Service Coverage Index and a lower-than-median doctor, nurse, and midwife density.

On Wednesday, April 12, Mr. Tenkorang stated to Martin Asiedu Darteh on Midday Live on TV3 that “it is rather a troubling problem because it is going to significantly effect the delivery of healthcare in Ghana.

“The government has set out to build Agenda 111 and all these hospitals will have to be populated by nurses and midwives. If we don’t take in drastic actions to stop the situation, it will certainly adversely impact healthcare delivery.”

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He added: “As far as 2020, we saw this coming even before Covid reared its ugly head because some of the Scandinavian and European countries have had their nurses move out of UK and therefore we have a certain kind of attrition. The salaries of midwives and nurses in Ghana is nothing to write home about.”

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“We need our skilled manpower to take care of the good people of this country. Those who are leaving are not the ones who just completed school, they are the experienced ones, those who have ten years to go on retirement, those who have fifteen years.

“So there is going to be a vacuum because these are the very experienced, competent nurses and midwives who should mentor the newly recruited. If we allow them to leave the way they are leaving, then we will have problems.”