Minister for Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has revealed that government’s promise to slash the Nursing college’s fees by half is been processed and that it has been communicated to the College’s.
He said the fees slash is in fulfillment of the Promise by the NDC Party in the run up to the 2024 elections.
The Minister made the disclosure at a ceremony in Accra on Tuesday to honour Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, a Ghanaian Oncology Nurse Specialist at Korle-Bu Teaching HoKorle-Bu who won the 2025 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award in May 2025, a prestigious prize recognizing her outstanding contributions to cancer care, including pioneering specialist training, mentoring, and championing equitable access to care in Africa.
“We have communicated the new fees of nursing colleges to them. It is about half of what the students paid last year. They are Paying 3,000 which is a massive reduction”, the Health Minister stressed.
According to him, government is committed to the Nurses’ development revealing that plans are far advanced to sponsor the professional upgrade of Nurses.
“Processes have begun and very soon we will start getting them what they need to upgrade themselves”, Hon. Akandoh stressed.
The Juaboso MP also revealed that about 7,000 out of the 13,000 Nurses who were recruited after 7th December have been integrated.
It would be recalled that government ordered that all recruitment done after December 7 be reversed.
But the Minister said 7,000 were maintained due to the high migration rate assuring that the remaining number would be recruited
Oyoe Ohene Oti, who received a $250,000 award for her work in transforming oncology nursing in Ghana and beyond, and her leadership in advancing cancer control efforts across the continent presented the Awards to the Minister after a cash award gh 50,000 donated to her by the Minister.
She appealed to the Minister to place premium on issues of cancer and support her financially to train more Nurses.
Earlier, the Minister received a 39-page report from the Committee tasked to investigate the cause of the death of a child at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The Minister thanked the Committee and assured them an action would taken upon review of rhe report.
Source:www.senaradioonline.com
