Following their meeting with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission on July 15, 2025, the Ghanaian Association of Registered Nurses and Midwives has announced that they will make a decision.
Following the association’s meeting with the parliamentary select committee on health at parliament, this was declared.
The association learned during the aforementioned conference that the government had chosen to include just two of its allowances in the mid-year budget.
“In the said meeting, it was clearly communicated by the Hon. Minister of Health that the government’s position on our demands is to capture only the Book and Research Allowance and the Uniform Allowance in the mid-year budget,” the association disclosed in a statement shared via social media.
However, the group stated that the government’s stance is intolerable, supporting their long-standing claim that their employer in Ghana does not prioritize their well-being as nurses and midwives.
They took advantage of the occasion to implore the employer to change its mind and incorporate the two additional items that the organization had expressed as priority items into the mid-year budget.
Read Their Statement Below
Meeting with the Parliamentary Select Commitee in Parliament
The parties present were the Ministry of Health (MoH), Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) and the host, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health.
In the said meeting, it was clearly communicated by the Hon. Minister of Health that, the government’s position on our demands is to capture only the Book and Research Allowance and the Uniform Allowance in the mid-year budget.
The Association’s position communicated in the meeting was that, it was highly unacceptable and buttresses our long standing assertion that, our employer does not place premium on our welfare as nurses and midwives in Ghana. We therefore strongly urge the employer to reconsider its position and include the two other items communicated as priority items from the Association in the mid-year budget.
We wish to put on record that, we are here because, someone chose to forget the Collective Agreement of nurses and midwives of Ghana during the transition from the previous government to this current government and therefore it was never up for discussion.
We are here because someone chose not to include the cost of our Collective Agreement in the national budget read on 11th March, 2025 despite the repeated assurances given to the leadership of the Association that it was being worked on.
More importantly, we are here because a section 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.
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 15th July, 2025 and call for commitment and good faith in the engagement.
We shall ADVISE OURSELVES should the engagement fail to address our concerns.
We thank the Chairman, Ranking Member and al Members of the Parliamentary Select Commitee on Health for their effort towards finding an amicable resolution to the implementation of our Collective Agreement.
To our dear nurses and midwives across the country, we are grateful for your continuous show of solidarity and wish to assure you that we are in this fight together and wil continue to lead in protecting your interest now and in the future.
Long live GRNMA!
Long live workers Solidarity!
Long live Ghana!
