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More than 70,000 health professionals remain unemployed -COHHETI

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More than 70,000 health professionals remain unemployed -COHHETI

More than 70,000 health professionals in the country remain unemployed, Miss Margaret Mary Alacoque, the President Conference of Heads of Health Training Institutions (COHHETI) said on Tuesday. She expressed concern about what she described as “over the overproduction of general nurses and midwives” and worried about the continuous establishment of new nursing training colleges in the country. Ms Alacoque said this when she addressed the opening session of the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the COHHETI, underway at Abesim, near Sunyani in the Bono Region. The seven-day conference is on the theme: “Transforming health training for a resilient workforce: specialisation, innovation, and quality assurance.” Ms Alacoque called for a shift towards specialisation, saying, rather...

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