Cabinet Spokesperson Maurice Merchant says group of Ghanaian nurses to arrive next weekend
One hundred and twenty nurses from Ghana are expected to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda on January 23, as the government moves to strengthen staffing levels within the public healthcare system.
The announcement was made during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, following an update from Minister of Health, Sir Molwyn Joseph.
According to the government, highly trained professionals will be deployed across the Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre, community clinics, and schools to help ease existing workforce pressures and improve patient care.
Officials say recruiting Ghanaian nurses is part of a broader strategy to address nurse shortages and ensure continuity of healthcare services. Cabinet also reaffirmed its commitment to long-term solutions, including continued training for local nurses at the University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus.
The government has emphasized that while international recruitment remains necessary in the short term, building a self-reliant and sustainable health workforce remains a national priority.
Are there coming with the baba? Hope not because we already have too much in ANU.
We only need the blood and the name of Jesus.No baba
Same thing I was wondering. Schools are overcrowded as it is already.
EVERYTHING needs to be imported? Even more nurses? How about train local nurses properly and give them the incentives to thrive in their profession? Bringing more foreigners and probably going to give them better incentives than local nurses.