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Gov’t has been urged to as a matter of urgency intervene to create employment opportunities to relieve the plight of the numerous frustrated nurses and midwives in the country that could not get job after successful completion of studies. PHOTO:Prez. Asare Bediako in a friendly pose with Joseph Kobla Wemakor at Pantang Hospital  This according to Asare Bediako Obed, Greater Accra Zonal President of the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions (GAHTI) is the surest way to go in helping reduce the burden of unemployment on the youth especially trainee nurses and midwives thereby paving way for them to live in dignity. Trainee nurses and midwives are currently battling with Government over unemployment issues two years after completion of studies which has become a huge challenge in Ghana. Pres. Asare Bediako Obed made the appeal whilst presenting assorted items to the inmates of Pantang Mental Hospital on behalf of Greater Accra zone of GAHTI in Accra on Saturday. It

The Greater Accra zone of the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions (GAHTI) has presented assorted items to support the inmates of the Pantang Mental Hospital. Items donated included 2 bags of rice, 15 bags of sachet mineral water, packs of toothpaste, toilet rolls, detergents, secondhand clothes, shoes and bags amongst others. According to Obed Asare Bediako, Gt. Accra Zonal President of the Ghana Association of Health Training Institutions (GAHTI), the donation forms part of activities to mark the association’s sixteen years anniversary. The donation targeted 3 specific wards of the hospital which comprises of 11; a female ward and the other two which are 12 and 13 respectively male wards. “It equally seeks to create awareness on GAHTI’s week celebration scheduled to take place in April, 16th -24 th on the theme: “The role of health trainees in the prevention of breast cancer”, Pres. Obed Asare Bediako added. The donation was made possible through per

Flagbearer of the People's National Convention, Dr. Edward Nasigire Mahama has condemn the state of the nation address presented by President Mahama to parliament suggesting that the Eastern corridor and the Upper West Region roads are in good shape and speedily nearing completion describing it as a 'politics of deception’. Considering the President's account very deceitful, Dr. Edward Mahama said ‘it does not reflect the true picture of what is on ground’ calling on President Mahama to as a matter of urgency come out and tell Ghanaians the truth. Dr. Edward Mahama shared his frustration in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Accra to register his displeasure a day after the President’s state of the nation address was presented to parliament. According to him, the road in question the President makes too big a mouth of was nothing good to write home about. He claimed he has toured the roads in the Upper West, Upper East and through the Eastern Corridor through