123 Ghanaian Nurses Approved After Screening of 190 Applicants
Health officials say 123 Ghanaian nurses have been approved to work in Antigua and Barbuda following a multi-stage recruitment and vetting process that reviewed 190 applications under a Cabinet-authorized initiative to address staffing shortages in the public health system.
According to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment, 190 applications were received during the recruitment mission conducted in Accra, Ghana. Of those, 32 applicants were rejected at the preliminary stage due to incomplete documentation or ineligibility.
A total of 158 candidates advanced to in-person, competency-based interviews conducted by a senior multidisciplinary panel that included nursing leadership, hospital administrators and public health officials.
Following the interviews, 127 candidates were recommended for vetting by the Antigua and Barbuda Nursing Council. After regulatory review, 123 registered nurses were approved by the council, with 112 ultimately selected for deployment based on service needs across hospitals, mental health services and community clinics.
Health officials said all recommendations were reached collectively using predefined criteria and that no standards were compromised during the selection process. Candidates who did not meet Antigua and Barbuda’s legal or professional requirements were not approved, even if they were qualified in their home country.
Authorities stressed that all approved nurses remain subject to final professional registration, police and medical clearances, and immigration approval before being allowed to practice locally.
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If no international agency was used in this then I am so against it. I would want an international regulatory body to review all the applicant’s training. Regulatory body from the US or Canada or UK, please not just the folks mentioned here.
Instead of hiring 123 Ghanian nurses, can we get 25 Canadian, American and UK nurses temporarily until Antiguans and Barbudans are trained using international standard?
Can we just get the best of the best for Antiguans and Barbudans? Please.
Could this be yet another chapter in Olabanjo and Gaston’s human-smuggling scheme masquerading as a nurse-recruitment initiative? The situation is deeply troubling. Ghana has never stood with Antigua on any significant issue, yet the ALP has seen fit to recruit nurses from Ghana. Why were qualified nurses not sourced from CARICOM member states first? This questionable arrangement reeks of ulterior motives, and there is clearly far more to this affair than meets the eye.
Instead of addressing the poor working conditions that continue to drive local nurses away, the Ministry of Health has chosen an aggressive and misguided recruitment drive abroad. This reckless approach exposes the government’s utter disregard for its own nursing professionals and, by extension, its citizens.
If anyone of the readers google and check the Cubans medical assistance to Ghana you will see that they have been dependent on Cuba medical brigade.
My way of helping-you sound like you just left the Plantation
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