Nurses and Doctors to now apply for jobs

Nurses and doctors will now apply for jobs themselves by applying and attending interviews before they will be placed or posted to health institutions.

Until recently, nurses and doctors were placed by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to various health facilities across the country, a situation which gave room for some of them to reject postings to deprived communities.

However, the Director General of the GHS, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare at the second senior managers meeting in Accra on November 13, 2018, said doctors and nurses who received financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance will seek for placement and postings at the regional levels.

The three-day meeting which brought together health directors and senior management staff in the health service across the country was to review the performances of the service at the regional levels.

According to Dr Nsiah, the GHS would announce the vacancies in the respective regions of the country for the health professionals to apply for the positions, go through the interview process and if they are picked they start work.

“Let me emphasize that henceforth, with all financial clearance to the service, staff will go through an interview process at the regions while placements and postings done according to the existing gaps”, he stated.

The new form of placement and postings, Dr. Asare said was to ensure a fair distribution of health workers across the country, noting that 48 percent of the health professionals resided in Accra while the remaining 52 percent were distributed among the nine other regions.