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UPDATE ON CONDITION OF SERVICE FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES – GRNMA

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, GRNMA,  has met with the Parliamentary Select committee on health regarding implementation of the Condition of Service for nurses and midwives. The meeting took place on the 10th of July 2025 at the Parliament house. In attendance was the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, and the host, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health.

The government at the meeting maintained its stand that it will only consider the book and research allowance and the uniform allowance in the mid-year budgets. The GRNMA iterated that the position of the government is unacceptable and the employer did not value the welfare of nurses and midwives in Ghana. The association urged the government to include the two other items included in the Condition of Service as they were also very essential which includes the 8% non-basic allowance and the fuel allowance.

The GRNMA raised concerns that the current implementation state of the COS has been due to

“someone chose not to include the cost of our collective agreements in the national budgets read on 11 March 2025 despite the repeated assurances given to the leadership of the Association that it was being worked on”.

The GRNMA also stressed on the fact that

“a session of our own colleagues chose to engage in unnecessary litigation at the expense of the welfare of the close to 125,000 nurses and midwives in Ghana”

Way Forward

According to the GRNMA, the National Council of the Association at its emergency meeting held on 10 July 2025 deliberated extensively on the issues with the following recommendations:

One, the reasons for the non-inclusion of the 8% non-basic allowance and the fuel allowance in the mid-year budget are untenable and therefore the leadership of the Association will avail itself for the meeting scheduled for Tuesday 15 July 2025 by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to discuss these further and push for their inclusion in the mid-year budgets.

Two, on all the other items spelled out in the Appendix B of our collective agreements we wish to reiterate a position that they must be captured as part of the national budgets for the year 2026 which will be read in Parliament in November 2025.

Three, our subsequent actions as an Association will be greatly premised on the outcome of the meeting to be held with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission on 15 July 2025 and therefore call for the commitment and good faith in the engagements because we shall advise ourselves should the engagement fail to address our concerns.

The president of the association, Mrs Perpetual Ofori Ampofo thanked all the parties involved for their efforts towards finding an amicable resolution to the implementation of the collective agreements. She also commended nurses and midwives across the country their continual show of solidarity.


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