Grenada Follows Antigua and Barbuda in Recruiting Healthcare Workers from Ghana
Sixty Ghanaian healthcare professionals arrive in Grenada for an expected two-year assignment to support health services.
Grenada has welcomed 60 healthcare professionals from Ghana, following Antigua and Barbuda’s recruitment of more than 100 Ghanaian healthcare workers nearly a year earlier.
The group, which includes nurses, doctors and other medical personnel, arrived on October 13, 2026, under Ghana’s Labour Export Programme. An official welcoming ceremony was held on October 16.
The deployment is intended to strengthen Grenada’s healthcare services while providing overseas employment opportunities for Ghanaian professionals and deepening ties between the two countries.
Representatives of both governments attended the ceremony, highlighting the partnership’s significance for healthcare cooperation and the historical and cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean.
Ghana’s Minister for Labour, Jobs and Employment, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, described the initiative as more than a placement of medical personnel. He said it reflected a shared commitment to professional development, improved healthcare and sustained bilateral cooperation.
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell thanked Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama for entrusting his country with the professionals and encouraged them to consider Grenada their home.
Mitchell said the healthcare workers were expected to serve for two years, although he expressed hope that their stay could extend beyond that period.
Welcoming them as brothers and sisters, he said there was no rush to leave when people felt at home, concluding with the Ghanaian greeting, “Akwaaba.”
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Comments (4)
Informed citizen October 23, 2026, 3:20 PM
Antigua did it first, now Grenada following suit! But the real question is, are we fixing the problems that making our healthcare system short of staff in the first place? We need more than a quick fix, allyuh!
ReplyRicardo October 23, 2026, 3:21 PM
Two years sound good on paper, but what happens when the contract done? If we doh train, recruit and retain enough healthcare workers long-term, we go right back to square one. Allyuh need a proper plan!
ReplyApex Jones October 23, 2026, 5:00 PM
Its about damn time. Since Trump put a squeeze on us not like we have much choice
ReplyHallelujah amen October 26, 2026, 6:19 AM
Look how alyuh a puppets for the USA. What help the Caribbean got from the USA during covid19 ? I am very upset to see how the Cubans were just thrown out let's not be ungrateful to our fellow Caribbean people and note Cubans can rival any first world country medically.
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