COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSES GET NEW CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

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Mr. Sylvester Anemana
The Ministry of Health has concluded a new Condition of Service for Community Health Nurses as part of a broader policy towards universal health coverage in the country. 

For this reason, Community Health Nurses can now rise through the ranks to the status of a Deputy Director of Nursing, DDNS, compared with previous restrictions which allowed such nurses to rise to a Superintendent Community Health Nurse which was still considered a lower grade.

 Additionally, the posting of Community Health Nurses will now be rotated to rural and urban centres unlike previously when they were restricted to rural health centres. This will give them the opportunity to upgrade themselves academically. 

The Chief Director of the Ministry of Health, Sylvester Anemana, disclosed this at the opening of the 23rd Annual General Meeting of the District Directors of Health Services Group, in Kumasi. 

The three-day event is on theme: “Achieving Universal Health Coverage through District Family Health System; The Role of CHPS”, and is being attended by almost all the 216 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Directors of Health Services in the country. 

The Chief Director of the Ministry of Health disclosed also that government has received funds from its development partners, including those who withheld their annual disbursement for certain reasons.

 The Ministry is therefore now waiting on the Ministry of Finance to release the health sector component to his Ministry for disbursement as well as procurement of vehicles and motorbikes to the district health directorates for improved operations. 

Mr. Anemana disclosed also that 'the policy on the Community-based Health and Planning Service, CHPS, has been reviewed to scale the number of CHPS compound" from one thousand, 300 to about one thousand 900 across the country between this year and 2017.

 He noted that midwives will be posted to man some of the CHPS compounds, in view of their competences to handle a number of health situations, such as maternal care and deliveries.

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