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Qualified But Unemployed: Ghana’s 70,000 health workers await jobs as foreign offers grow

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  • Abena Owusuwaa 5 months ago

    I hope Dr Apaak and Haruna are aware of these unemployed qualified workers. Dr Apaak is still pushing the Government to pay free school fees, free allowance and interest free Loans to students. Where will the fit in in 3-4 ye ...
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  • Sensible And Problem Solving Mahama Government 5 months ago

    The sensible thing is what the Mahama government spearheaded by Dr. Akandoh is doing is getting both local and foreign job opportunities for them. What do you expect? Just let kids stay home because there are no job opportuni ...
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  • Wwwe 5 months ago

    Ofuibiba when npp was doing the same tin fools and animals like U told us it's bad now it's from this idiot who told us there's no COVID in 2020 and now COVID HV come in 2025 because of the wisdom of nana to keep the COVID Le ...
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  • Oklemekuku 5 months ago

    Wisdom of WHO? Akuffo Addo and Wisdom cannot be in any sentence. Time to take your meds

  • mmd 5 months ago

    And who caused these numbers to swell up? Your Npp failed to build enough health facilities to absorb these qualified health staff. If Akuffo Addo and Bawumia were digilent enough, they would have built more health facilities ...
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  • Brandy 5 months ago

    Low IQ

  • THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT ABROAD IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE THINK IT IS 5 months ago

    Over the last decade and particularly since after the Covid-19 Pandemic Western countries ,particularly those in Europe have become far more challenging destinations for Ghanaians and other African to relocate to for work. It ...
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  • IT IS WORSE FOR FAMILIES 5 months ago

    It is worse for families

  • Elephanteeee 5 months ago

    Eeiii. @ Abena Owusuwaa. But you were head over heels supporting the free SHS when it was introduced by Akufo Addo in 2018 isn't it? When Bawumia was singing his nasal rhymes Teacher trainee alawa Nursing trainee alawa you ...
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  • 8 YEARS UNDER NANA ADDO THERE WAS NO JOBS FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES 5 months ago

    NPP NO MORE 8 YEARS 70000 NURSES WERE AT HOME WITH NO JOBS.

  • Dee 5 months ago

    Now ndc is in power tell them to employ all the70,000 nurses you talking about nothing have changed ghana is still ghana and the 70,00 nurses are still in ghana ok.

  • mmd 5 months ago

    With what funds? You rundown the economy in eight years, how do you expect the gov't who is working hard to turn economy around to employ all the 70k at a go? Remember they're not the only qualified professionals awaiting job ...
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  • Wwwe 5 months ago

    Lol go out and read U will see that one idiot embargoed employment for them for more than yrs hmmm

  • BNI 5 months ago

    So you rather they became school drop outs? Do you realize an educated but unemployed population is cheaper since they know better and as such litter less and fall ill less thus reducing strain on expensive public services? A ...
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  • Asanttofie 5 months ago

    The proliferation of universities in the country has become a contributing factor into this unhealthy gridlock. The expectations are that once an individual obtains a degree, it is the responsibility of the government to offe ...
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  • Abaqua 5 months ago

    Write your comment; Because they ar not families n relatives they cannot be help travel outside the country to look good. opportunistics leaders like haruna etc. shame.

  • Elephanteeee 5 months ago

    @ Abaqua. Are you mad?

  • CITIZEN 5 months ago

    So what do we do with such information? I think completing and operationalizing some of the over ambitious agenda 111 hospitals will help absorb most of these redundant health workers. Just lamenting won't solve any problem. ...
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  • Abaqua 5 months ago

    Write your comment; Foreign offers continue to grow , it will grow. u the leaders ar all wicked n evils. cant u help them out. akandoh, thank u. the president closes his evil ears n eyes to this cry of our children opportunit ...
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  • Tolon doo 5 months ago

    7months in a government no positive dorection is coming out from you and your pay master only baby with sharp teeths comment's

  • Name William 5 months ago

    Ghanaweb. Com if you think you can't do the job get your ass off from the media and let who wants to do it. You set up this medium to favor a particular party. Just go through this list. They say their minds when some of us s ...
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  • GOVERNMENT CANT EMPLOY ALL-ghanani 5 months ago

    The government must be bold to tell ghanaians that the government is not in a position to employ all unemployed Ghanaians irrespective of their qualifications. Where are the vacancies for the thousands of health personnel be ...
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  • Do you guys have ideas at all? 5 months ago

    You need These professionsls Homepage. First send These already woking and have experimente in Bacchus out. Replace them with These on the fence Waiting. The Monet YouTube get from Sendung them , User it to expand Primary hea ...
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  • Wwwe 5 months ago

    When this idiot was a ranking member he told us it's not good to do that now U see Ur stupid face

  • Tom 5 months ago

    They will and overstay their kids just as students in America.

  • Tweaa 5 months ago

    The other solution can be making it hard to get into a nursing school, in this case only few study will come out at a time , also the agenda 111 project can be a tide breaker

  • Bitter truth 5 months ago

    That’s it, the better solution is to make it difficult for people to get into the nursing schools..that’s what america did? When they realize that a lot of people want to go into nursing, they made it difficult for people ...
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  • mmd 5 months ago

    It isn't that the Ghana health sector staffing is adeqaute, no. We have a huge staff deficit. Doctor/nurse- to -patient ratios are still low. There are some sistricts with only one doctor or no doctor at all. Our challenge is ...
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  • Raman 5 months ago

    Togo, Congo, Chad, Eritrea, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen. TAKE THEM all there to serve

  • Agradaa 5 months ago

    Haaahaaha.They will decline some of the countries.

  • Kwame 5 months ago

    stop sending trained nurses to Jamaica and build hospitals!

  • Bitter truth 5 months ago

    Because they are purely stupid..politicians in Ghana specifically are purely stupid..what the hell? Jamaica? A country that’s not up to the population of Accra is now the one employing your nurses..Seriously Ghana is under ...
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  • Kofi Adu 5 months ago

    Government should privatize so many institutions.
    Why should the government be an employer? Government should encourage private companies to expand by giving them tax incentives

  • Bitter truth 5 months ago

    Stupid, stupid, stupid politicians with no brains..I was waiting for this stupidity to happen..I see politicians who let nurses and healthcare professionals travel to foreign countries as less than animals..yes not sorry for ...
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  • Kofi 5 months ago

    Stop graduating too many health care professionals then. Tie the number of spots in the schools for health care professions to the number of jobs available.

  • Bitter truth 5 months ago

    Yes govt must stop Corruption and make sure every year only some few students can get spots in the nursing schools..don’t let too many students graduate from nursing schools knowing very well they will not get employment.. ...
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  • mmd 5 months ago

    As a matter of fact, this is one of the many consequences of FSHS. As more people access FSHS, the numbers will automatically swells up at the tertoary level, and then boom! we'll have unreasonable numbers of graduates to de ...
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  • Raphael Abeam US 5 months ago

    It's not we have excess nurses but because there is no money to pay them
    Go to some places and see how they are struggling to get nurses to take care of them. So are you saying Korlebu and Ridge hospital in Accra has enorm ...
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  • Bitter truth 5 months ago

    U are 100% right..the actual problem is that because of corruption, the govt don’t have money to pay nurses..it’s about time the govt allow some private institutions to venture into the healthcare space to absorb some of ...
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  • mmd 5 months ago

    If we want to clear this huge backlog of qualified professionals sitting at home, the gov't will have to halt the yearly admissions in these health training institutions by making the admissions every two years to allow more ...
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  • Enyo 5 months ago

    All talk and no solution!! Just fix it and stop the talking, thats what you are being paid fatly for!!

  • Cyril 5 months ago

    Very shameful! You have skilled labor that are rusting and wasting, including medical doctors.

  • mmd 5 months ago

    This is one of the impacts of free shs. We can't eat our cake and have. Ghanaians want Fshs education, yet don't want the consequenes that come with it. As more people access the fshs, we'll have more numbers swell up in our ...
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  • Obtempong 5 months ago

    Is Ghana overpopulated? Are Ghanaian
    Medical facilities overloaded with adequate
    necessary skilled workmen such as nurses,
    doctors and skilled and essential allied health
    professionals—pharmacists, laboratory technolo ...
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  • Roots found 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Afr Amer male here in US, retiring to Ghana by October 2025. Am in my early 70s age-wise and able bodied. Need atleast three trained female nurses in my house for this new Ghana 24 hour service society.
    All must speak ...
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  • Michael 5 months ago

    Politicians mmoa, there are teaming unemployed qualified youth professionals out there, and you are looting this country as if the stolen monies will be buried with you tomorrow. And when even the slightest efforts are made t ...
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  • Jonathan Mensah 5 months ago

    Freedom of speech is allowing people to express themselves without consequences but it is clearly creating the wrong impression that people are insulting each other and creating disharmony in the country. This shows that peop ...
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  • J.C.A 5 months ago

    You're telling us to do what, we thought the NDC says they are better to provide jobs than the previous government. So keep quiet and employ The nonsense

  • Serwaa 5 months ago

    Waaa look at this foolishness. Financial clearance is the issue. When the country put people in SOE’s and pay all the state money to them. Where will there be money to employ people to take care of their health. Go NIB. ban ...
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