MINISTRY OF HEALTH, UCC SIGN MoU ON TRAINING

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(from l-r) Dr. Bampoe and Mr. Teye Onyame

The Ministry of Health and the University of Cape Coast have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, and another Agreement granting the UCC the authority to mentor, coordinate and supervise some of the Post Basic clinical programmes. 

The signing of the MoU and the mentorship Agreement in Kumasi follows the inauguration of the Health Training Institutions Secretariat in Accra recently by the sector Minister. 

The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Victor Asare Bampoe signed the documents on behalf of the Ministry while Jeff Teye Onyame, Deputy Registrar at the Academic Affairs Division of the University of Cape Coast initialed for the UCC.

 The three-year partnership will allow the UCC to be part of the admission processes, training and certification of Diploma and Certificate courses such as Nurse Anaesthesia, Mental and Psychiatric Nursing, Direct Medical Assistant among others. 

In an address, the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Victor Asare Bempoe said the need to set up a secretariat for health training institutions has become important due to the significant growth in the numbers of health training institutions in this country.

 Dr. Asare noted that it is also in response to an urgent demand for coordinating and monitoring of staining standards as the numbers of training institutions continued to increase. 

The Deputy Minister explained that among the mandates of the secretariat is to explore and examine ways of not only improving nursing and allied services especially as well as making sure that the public benefits from its investment in the training of nurses.  

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