An Image of Nurses in Ghana The Ministry of Health has denied the alleged extortion from unemployed nurses and midwives for placement.  It has cautioned the trainee nurses to desist from engaging anonymous or self-acclaimed officials under the pretext of facilitating their financial clearance at the Ministry. Unemployed nurses and midwives have persistently criticized both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance for failing to grant financial clearance to secure permanent employment opportunities for them. They have held a series of demonstrations and picketing at the Health Ministry whilst alleging that officials from the Ministry have resorted to demanding money from them before being employed. Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health, Isaac Offei Baah, reacting to the development in an interview with Onua News, discredited the rumour that officials of the Ministry are extorting money from the newly qualified nurses to assist with their placement. He insisted that no official at the Ministry has been assigned to engage such acts, stressing that any nurse who has paid money to any official did so at his or her own peril. "The Ministry distances itself from these practices, that whoever collects money from you, make sure to request for a receipt from the Ministry.