{"id":461731,"date":"2018-02-06T01:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/4000-medical-practitioners-to-gain-employment-health-ministry\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:30:23","slug":"4000-medical-practitioners-to-gain-employment-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/4000-medical-practitioners-to-gain-employment-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"4000 Medical practitioners to gain employment &#8211; Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  6 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17870957.295.jpg\" alt=\"Health Ministry  \" title=\"Health Ministry  \" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Health Ministry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517880623_147_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Ministry of Health has been given financial green light to clear 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in the government sector in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, he is optimistic those cleared so far will begin work in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>He said,\u201c\u2026the possibility that these people will be engaged in the next few months I believe is there\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further indicated that in over the past year, the government had recruited 17,000 medical practitioners of which 882 are medical officers and 395 are health officers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cudjoe moreover said that 3,058 are general and mental health nurses, 1, 946 are midwives and 1,896 are community nurses with certificates and diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>He said Health assistants were 3,918 while 2,576 are allied health professionals with 1,312 being degree holding nurses. Pharmacy technicians comprised 97.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are 14 physician assistants, 89 field technicians and 90 technical assistants as well as 48 technical officers, 55 health promotion officers and seven lab technicians.<\/p>\n<p>The number also included 35 dental surgery assistants and 36 technical officers for nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government policy was that it didn\u2019t want people to continue sitting at home but to clear all of them [and] it\u2019s been able to recruit 17,009. Some of them have sat home for the past four years or so,\u201d Mr Cudjoe explained.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern about some junior doctors complaining about their recruitment after government had secured clearance for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had already secured their clearance and we\u2019re working towards it\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 6 February 2018 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2018-02-06 Health Ministry The Ministry of Health has been given financial green light to clear 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in the government sector in the country. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, he is optimistic those cleared so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}