Poor standards threat to health care delivery 

The Dean of the School of Nursing and Medicine of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor Prudence Nyaledzigbor says poor standard of health care delivery is posing a threat to the profession and must be reversed promptly. 

Professor Nyaledzigbor was speaking in Ho at a durbar organized by the Volta Regional branch of the Ghana Association of Registered Nurses and Midwives as part of their week-long celebration.

The Ghana Registered Nurses’ and Midwives' Association  formerly  known as Ghana Registered Nurses' Association is a professional Association for all categories of Nurses in Ghana. 

The aim of the Association founded in March 1960 is to provide a central organization that will advance the interest of the nursing profession in Ghana and internationally. 

The Dean of the School of Nursing and Medicine of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor Prudence Nyaledzigbor urged health care providers to be concerned about the complete well-being of patients. 

He therefore charged health workers to improve on their performance in order the meet the standard of the Nursing profession.

The Volta Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Joseph Teye Nuertey, disclosed that government will soon institute measures to cushion nursing trainees and then finally migrate them onto the loan trust which every tertiary student is entitled to. 

Dr. Teye Nuertey encouraged health care providers to accept postings to rural areas where their services are needed most.

The Acting Volta Regional Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Robertson Anyigba noted that a resilient health system cannot be achieved without adequate number of trained and well-performing nursing and midwifery workforce. 

He therefore advised nurses and midwives to prioritize capacity building programmes to keep pace with international standards.
 
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