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After scrapping nursing students’ allowance, the government
has resolved to pay each trainee nurse in the country a monthly abated
allowance of GHC150.
A statement issued by the Health Ministry said the
decision to pay each of the 34,500 students currently pursuing various levels
of health professional training across the country was based on the
recommendations of a technical committee set up by the President.
Government
scraped the allowance system to invest the monies into infrastructural
development at the various training institutions to enable them absolve the
huge numbers of students who apply. But the government has since received
backlash, especially from nursing students, for scrapping the allowance which
they said was cushioning them.
Following the agitation, a committee was set up
to review the issue after which it recommended that the students be paid the
abated allowances “with a possibility to migrate them onto the students Loan
Scheme.”
“The payment amount would serve
as a bridging mechanism pending the amendment of the Students Loan Trust Act,
to enable students in non-tertiary Health Training Institutions access loans to
support their education,” the statement explained. The statement said further
information on the new arrangements will be available at the Health Training
Institutions Secretariat
By 3news.com|Ghana
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