Leadership of the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) has lamented as “discriminatory, selective and intimidating” a decision by government not to absorb nurses trained at private colleges.
According to USAG, the decision is a threat to national security.
These observations were made in a statement released on Friday, May 25.
Some unemployed nurses had complained in the recent past that government had neglected them because they were trained at private institutes.
The solidarity statement by USAG said so far as these professionals are Ghanaians and their parents pay taxes, they should be posted like those trained at state institutes.
Read the statement below:
USAG ON GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO DENY IT’S CONSTITUENTS READING “NURSING” IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES EMPLOYMENT.
The unshared attention of the Leadership of the University Students’ Association of Ghana (USAG) has been drawn to a Government’s decision to officially deny students reading “NURSING” in PrivateUniversities employment opportunities in the State Owned Medical Outfits.
We at USAG, which is an official mouthpiece of all universities, both Traditional(government) and Private, see this decision of the government as clearly discriminatory, selective and intimidating to Ghanaian students reading “NURSING” in Private Universities in their motherland Ghana.
We, therefore, appeal to the government to willingly reconsider this decision, since its rippling ramifications can be a direct threat to national security.
We are humbly pleading with the government to officially review this perilous posture with total expedition because of the following reasons;
Source: GhanaWeb
