Health Ministry Blamed for sale of application forms

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Created on Sunday, 19 April 2009 00:00

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Health Ministry Blamed for sale of application forms

Nurses training college entry application forms which are meant to be free are allegedly being sold for 4.00 Ghana cedis each in Ho.

Some prospective applicants told the Ghana News Agency that they bought the forms at the Ho Nurses Training College even though advertisements in one of the dailies indicated that the forms could be obtained for free at the College.

One of them, who wants to remain anonymous, according to Ghana News Agency report on April 15, said she was turned away because she did not have the money to buy the forms until she called some days later with the money. She showed the GNA the form on which it was boldly written "NOT FOR SALE."

Mr. James Agboada, Principal of the Nurses Training College in Ho, said the situation arose because the Ministry of Health put the forms on the internet for people to download instead of sending them to the training institutions.

He said people who could download the forms were selling them to those prospective applicants who could not download them and the situation is countrywide and not peculiar to Ho. Mr. Agboada said the forms would be available at the Ho Nurses Training College by the end of the week for prospective applicants to obtain free of charge.

Source: GNA