Event Highlights
GRNMA Tour Greater Accra
The next stop of the National Working Tour of the National Executive Committee took the team to the Greater Accra region for two day working tour from 26th to 28th July 2017.
The team visited the Ridge Hospital where Nurses and Midwives were engaged in a Forum. It afforded them the opportunity to ask questions and seek clarification on issues bothering on the practice of nursing and midwifery, welfare and conditions of service.
GRNMA Tours Volta Region
As part of the national tour of the National Executive Committee of the GRNMA, the team paid a two day working tour of the Volta region of Ghana from 23rd to 25th July 2017.
The team paid courtesy calls on the Regional CNO and the other directors at the Regional Health Directorate.
The 3 Tier Pension Act 766
The Forum for Public Sector Registered Pension Schemes has given the Government up to the end of July to resolve outstanding issues regarding the Tier Two Pension Scheme.
Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo, the Chairman of the Forum, at a news conference in Accra, said since 2010 when the Scheme commenced, government had about 80 months’ arrears of their five per cent monthly deductions to be paid to their respective custodian fund managers.
Press Statement by the Forum on the State of Pensions
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE FORUM ON THE STATE OF PENSIONS IN GHANA SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL PENSIONS ACT, 2008, (ACT 766) AND AMENDMENT ACT 883 OF 2014
The 2nd Dr. Docia Kisseih Memorial Lecture
The 2nd Dr. Docia Kisseih memorial lecture saw in attendance many practicing nurses and midwives as well as student nurses and midwives. Many dignitaries also attended the event, amongst them were Hon. Tina Mensah, the Deputy minister of health, Mrs. Eva Mensah, the Ag. Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services and Mr. Kwame Nyanteh, the registrar of NMC. Also present were Regional Chief Nursing Officers, heads of various health facilities in Greater Accra as well some distinguished retired nurses.
2017 ICN CONGRESS
The council of National Representatives (CNR) meeting has ended in Barcelona, Spain. The CNR meeting took place from 25th to 27th May 2017 and provided an opportunity for National Nursing and Midwifery Associations to come together and develop policies for global governance of nursing through strategic leadership, policy impact and diversification.