NEWS:(GHANA) Atibie Midwifery College Suspends Admission The Atibie Midwifery Training College has not admitted any student to pursue the Health Assistants Clinical (HAC) programme since 2010, Mrs. Paulina Osabutey, Principal of the school has said. She said the institution suspended intake of students for the HAC programme because of inadequate classroom infrastructure. "Our inability to run the HAC programme over the last three years has adversely affected the people of the Kwahu Ridge and the adjoining communities since most of the youth, who could not make the grades for the diploma programmes, have been deprived of the opportunity to at least enroll for the certificate in HAC programme". Mrs. Osabutey, who was speaking at the second graduation of the 2007/2012 batch of Midwifery/HAC of the College at Atibie, noted that the problem had also impacted negatively on the availability and the distribution of needed nursing human resources across health facilities in the Eastern Region. That she said was because the facility was the only one in the region, which trains Post Enrolled Nursing (EN), Community Health Nursing (CHN), Midwifery and the Health Assistants to feed health facilities in the region. "We, therefore, need additional classroom structures with the capacity to accommodate about 300 students as a matter of urgency not only to correct this apparent imbalance and shortage of nursing personnel in the region, but more importantly to provide the youth in the area with practical employable skills that can be deployed for the benefit of the communities". Mrs. Osabutey, therefore, appealed to the Ministry of Health, through the Regional Minister, the Regional Health Directorate, the Kwahu South District Assembly and their partners who desire to see quality nursing and midwifery to come to their aid and take immediate steps to put up a classroom block for the College. The Principal indicated that sound academic discipline and quality training of nurses and midwives required the availability of adequate number of tutors to teach, guide and mentor students qualitatively. She said unfortunately that was not the situation in the school as tutors continued to refuse postings to Atibie, citing various reasons including lack of decent accommodation.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:40:56 +0000
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