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WHY SOME WISHES NEVER BECAME HORSES : A CASE OF GRADUATE UNEMPLOYED NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN GHANA.

 WHY  SOME WISHES WISHES NEVER BECAME HORSES: A CASE OF GRADUATE UNEMPLOYED  NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN GHANA.

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"May the lesson of the Lot's wife  never lost on the next generation".


 Fraternal salutations, Students of the Nightingale Fraternity.


When the people of Gahana (youthful population) went to the poll in 2016, it was about bread and butter matter not blricks  and bridges.  We voted for jobs and better working conditions. 




When the new reality dawn on us on the 7th January,2017. It was a new day and a new beginning. The old has gone and the new has come .The euphoria was like high tension electric polls . But ,this euphoria will soon  disappear . 



Lest we forget,When we went to the polls in 2016 and 2020, there were more pressing issues than bricks and bridges. Corruption, insecurity, unemployment and inflation were at it pinnacles. 



The change we voted for never materialized. It was a changed for the political elites and their few family friends and associates ..



The problems are many, permit me to limit my discussion in the preceding paragraph to Nurses and Midwives employment.


It appears but not just yesterday that Nurses and Midwives will have to sit home for  years before getting employment. This was our wish but never became a horse .it is completely unacceptable to school for two ,three and four years and return home to sit for three and two years before you might get  permanent posting. The value of the professional training has lost it  validity already. How ,do you expect us to render competent nursing and Midwifery care to our clients.



Let me begin by reminding them that,the government should stop beating their chests the mirage employment they claimed they have created.  Today,as I write this piece,the 2019 batch of NAP AND NAP graduates are still at home after almost three solid years of completion school. Their lives has become dependants to their immediate families and the larger society. It is very terrible how these graduates survive in the mixed of the high inflation and economic crisis.


Let me be quick to add that,the 2019 Diploma Resit batch and the 2020 Main Batch have no fate in term of getting employment after they are professionally and ethically trained with the tax payers money to render Service to their citizens. 


It should and must not be a crime to become a nurse or Midwife in Ghana. Finding a job is just like looking for a virgin in the 21st century. 


This article is a follow up reminder to the government to fulfill the Social contract they signed with the people of Ghana. It is out rights to decent living conditions and jobs as a Citizens. After all, the President asked us to be citizens not spectators. 



To those,we shared our emotional pains, let's hear your voice. Our stakeholders who shared our depression, let's see your actions.  The burden is real and the suffering too is deadly . 


To sum it all ,we need immediate employment. Let no body comes under the cloat of Political surrogacy to play with our emotions. Let them be told and let the MoH and MoF be awared the tortured they have subjected us to with impunity and violence. 


And finally to my colleagues of the Nightingale Fraternity, just one day,we will all find favour in the face of our  struggles . It may delay but not denial. 


Our struggles continues..



By,

Goodluck Jonathan Tampuor.

The Writer is a Youth Activist, Freelance writer and Blogger and Registered Nurse 

jonathandari670@gmail.com.

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