The Private Health Facilities Association of Ghana (PHFAG) has appealed to the government to consider posting nurses to their facilities to improve healthcare delivery and also reduce the unemployment situation in the health sector.
The association believes, difficulties on the part of the private health providers to attract well-trained nurses to work at their health facilities are impacting negatively on quality health care in Ghana.
The General Secretary of GPHFA, Mr. Samuel Boakye Donkor, in an interview with Ohene Kinnah on Plan B FM’s ‘Ebaanosen’ said most of the nurses only work with them when they have no job offers from the central government.
He added that immediately government gives clearance for their postings, they stop working with the private facilities making it difficult for them to operate.
“We are ready to collaborate with the government to solve this problem, what we are saying is that there are many of our facilities ready to employ these nurses who are chasing the government for employment ”
“The government should post them to our facilities and we will readily collaborate with the state to ensure the nurses are well paid,” he said.
According to the group, the delay in payments to healthcare service providers has resulted in their inability to procure medical and nonmedical consumables like drugs amongst others.
The General Secretary of GPHFA Mr Samuel Boakye Donkor says all engagements with the NHIA to demand reimbursement of the monies have not yielded positive results and calls on the
government as a matter of urgency to come to their rescue and pay them so that they can get money to pay the nurses when posted to their facilities, he added.
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