GHANIAN NURSES ARRIVE

More than 100 nurses from the Republic o Ghana arrived this morning on a two year contract to enhance the complement of nurses in Barbados.

During a press briefing this morning the group was welcomed by Mrs Juliet Bynoe Sutherland of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) as well as from the Republic of Ghana, Kwesi Asabir, Director Human Resources, Ministry of Health, Felix Nyante, Head of the Health and Training Institute and Ernestin Boakye-Yiadom Projects and Events Office. Mrs Juliet Bynoe Sutherland in welcoming the delegation and the contingent of nurses told the press that from the group of nurses 56 will be assigned to the QEH and 66 will be assigned to the polyclinics, psychiatric and geriatric hospitals under the Ministry of Health.

Dr Asabir stated that Ghana has had a strategic plan to train nurses, producing 20,000 nurses annually however recognising that they are unable to consume such numbers they have embarked on a programme to provide assistance to countries. That assistance is in the area of providing health care services, exporting some of the nurses abroad. Barbados through its Prime Minister has been the first country to receive a cohort of nurses. Stressing that covid has taught that the world is a global village where countries who have share their skills with those who have little or are in need the Republic of Ghanian please to enter this arrangement with the country of Barbados.

Felix Nyante in speaking to the media stated that he wanted to assure Barbadians that the nurses are well trained, have followed global and International standards and are well equipped and trained to carry out for their functions.