More than 100 nurses recruited from Ghana are due to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda on Monday afternoon, as the government seeks to address critical staffing shortages in the public healthcare system.
Health officials say long-standing shortages have placed pressure on frontline workers and risked patient care.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Stacey Gregg-Paige, said the recruitment was carried out under formal government-to-government agreements between Antigua and Barbuda and Ghana.
She said the process was governed by a memorandum of understanding and a service agreement approved by the Ministry of Legal Affairs, and was fully compliant with public service, regulatory and immigration requirements.
The recruitment exercise took place in Accra in September last year under Ghana’s Labour Exchange Programme. Of 190 applicants, 127 were selected following interviews and vetting by the Antigua and Barbuda Nursing Council.
The nurses will undergo a three-week orientation programme, including cultural and clinical training, before being assigned to healthcare facilities.
Health officials estimate the country needs about 400 nurses. The arrival of the Ghanaian cohort is expected to improve staffing levels and ease pressure on existing nurses.
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That is good but please tell them to leave their BABA in Africa and walk with Jesus we have enough voodoo in ANU and we need no more
International recruitment is often used when local training pipelines take time to meet demand. We need to strengthen our local nurses
Life has come full circle. Our dead ancestors would’ve been extremely happy.
This time their descendants came without chains and educated
I hear molwyn and ALP that has created the situation is now asking us to accept their solutions, saying how wonderful the Ghanaian nurses are and how wonderful the hospital will function now in a utopian manner, but let any a these labor party ministers get sick or even sprain a finger, and off they gone on air ambulance to the USA and cayman islands medical facilities, so this health system is for the black picky head people,you know how much life lost in Antigua hospital due to lack of funding from the ALP government and it’s so call finance minister?
Blessed Love ,” Real Talk”, you have my sentiments .Positive observation ..”Anonymous”, not so relevant in fact considering Haiti’s Revolution 8/21/1791- 1804 conditioned our “Diaspora” inclusive Voodooism, camouflaged behind Christianity, with ‘hope of being completely FREE (from enslavement) , the COLONIAL system mocked and continues to mock , the” Son of the Most High “by organizing extreme cruelty(always and more desperate during the awareness of VOODOOISM ( please read more to better over stand) while having religious “Mass”, WHITE Only at the time, (now all who Hate Jah and Jah people) etc,”Informed citizen”, Willie Lynch Letter/ Symptom /behaviors since 1712 ..TO Quote The letter purports a slave owner, in which he tells other slave owners that he has discovered the “Secret” to controlling the slaves by” setting them against against one another”. While I humbly appreciate on line participation …THINK POSITIVE the article expressed PURPOSE. Blessed LOve
Pay the antigua nurses better!!!!!!
We have a nursing school, yet we’re short on nurses?
It says to me we lub other peoples’ people
Use our MBS subsription dollars more wisely and stop giving Cuban and Ghanan people our taxpayers money. (I suppose the proposedlandlord for the Ghanaians will scoff at this statement)
As long as they are knowledgeable. That’s alll
We should give them a grand welcome at the airport.
On behalf of Antiguans, I welcome you. I apologize for the IGNORANT, HATEFUL, RHETORIC spewed by one Pearl “FOOTS” Quinn.
Ironically her brother will likely receive treatment from one of you. Excuse the dimwitted 🤡 UPP sent to speak on your arrival.
There’s a patient by the name of Gregory
What is all this hostility, why can’t we be civilized. These nurses are leaving their country to work in Antigua, remember they speak English,please give them a warm welcome.Now that is said how come Antigua is not producing enough nures .They have a nursing school and yet Antiguans are not interested. So give me a break. One thing I know Foreign nurses are more compassionate. I will leave it right there.
They bring man nf them Antigua gyal go happy🤣
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