The Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association (GNMTA) has raised concerns over the delay in the disbursement of allowances to trainee nurses and midwives.
Despite the government’s promise to pay these allowances, the GNMTA claims that the payment schedule has not been fully honoured.
President of the Association, Adumbisa Pascal speaking to the media said though they acknowledged the part payments made to some of its members, with first, second, and third-year trainees receiving allowances for 5, 6, and 5 months respectively however, they expressed concern that the 2022 batch, scheduled to receive their arrears on May 23, along with the 2023 and other batches, have not received these payments.
According to him, 2017-2020, 2018-2021, 2019-2022, and 2020-2023 batches have yet to receive any portion of their allowances describing the situation as unacceptable and called for immediate attention.
Some of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees also expressed their frustrations and pleaded with the government to pay them their allowance.
