NTCs already offering Diploma course - Acting Principal

Kumasi, Jan. 22, GNA - Mrs Alice Donkor, acting Principal of the Kumasi Nurses Training College (NTC) says it is not true that the Nurses Training Colleges were now going to start a diploma course. She said the NTCs started offering diploma courses about six years ago.

Reacting to a Ghana News Agency (GNA) news item, which was carried in the Wednesday, 21st January 2004, issues of the "Pioneer" and on some radio stations in Kumasi, Mrs Donkor said what she told the reporter and his colleague was that the NTCs might be accredited in the middle of this year.

Mrs Donkor said the reporters approached her for a clarification after she had spoken briefly at the Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association's Annual Week Celebrations last Saturday and that she gave them a short brief and told them that the NTCs were waiting for the accreditation.

She said she also told them that over 3,000 people had applied for admission but the college was able to offer only 143 places and not 1,500 applicants and 400 admissions as reported.

On the composition of the Board of Governors, she said they would assist the administration in an advisory capacity in the running of the college and that on the exodus of trained nurses, she admonished them to stay and work in the country, taking into account the fact that the state was spending the tax payer's money to train them.