DAMAK SANITATION WATCH & HEALTH
PRESS RELEASE
GOV'T SHOULD NOT BE ADAMANT ON HEALTH TRAINEE STUDENTS
The government delay in responding to the Health Trainee students over their unpaid three years allowances is a daring path to implicate health implications in the country in future. The trainee students in all the hygiene health institutions across the country besieged the Health Ministry barley three weeks ago demanding their thirty months allowances met with a twist and turn response from the Ministry, is a situation that may ensue future setbacks.
The situation is deeply affecting academic work since 2017; their allowances are still locked in the coffers of the ministry for reasons best known to them alone.
Government has released a whopping sum of Ghc232 million to be disbursed to all Allied Hygiene Health Training Institutions. And out of the Ghc232 million, each student is supposed to be given Ghc12, 000 for the 30-months accumulated arrears. According to sources, Ghc232 million is said to be released annually to these institutions.
The outfit of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health has since over the years worked closely toward ensuring that health-related issues are properly addressed thus, deem it a privilege considering our track record to add our candy voice to the matter by drawing the attention of the government and the Ministry of Health, and the Sanitation Ministry that, their intention to making Ghana the cleanness city in Africa cannot be achieved without the inclusion of the Hygiene Health students. These very institutions when proper attention is not given to them, the probability of losing the fight are 80% because they represent the majority workforce in the sanitation and hygiene sector.
Having considered the level at which their allowances are being delayed, and the strange development or explanation given to them without a definite time frame for the money to be paid is raising possible questions of where is the money that has been allocated for the students.
''Government, considering the long silence over the allowance is justifiable to say that the Ghc232 million went into wrong hands or the government is possibly not going to release the money to the students''. The field these students have chosen is critical to national development and their concerns and grievances should be apprehended by the government.
A nation that commits enough resources into health institutions is building a vibrant and healthy economy. However, we want to use this medium to prompt the government that its efforts to make the nation clean and green, should cogently rest on their shoulders financially. People who are being appointed to occupy such positions seem to be disappointing the president and its time the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to wake up from his slumber and efficiently enforce the laws on his officials to work for the betterment of Mother Ghana.
Signed......
Chief Executive Officer
Damak Sanitation Watch and Health
Mr. Akgri Daniel Mbabugri
Tel:0248998510
