Deputy Health Minister advocates transparent, merit-based admissions into health training institutions

The conference brought together officials from the Ministry of Health, Health Training Institutions, regulatory councils, mentoring universities, development partners, and members of admissions and selection committees to discuss interview processes, selection guidelines and strategies for harmonising admissions and improving the quality of health professional education in Ghana.

Director of Human Resource for Health Development at the Ministry of Health, Fred Mensah Achampong, described the annual conference as an important platform for strengthening health professional education through collaboration, experience sharing and innovation.

These include the timely payment of trainee allowances, the introduction of fully funded PhD scholarships for 30 health tutors, the creation of the Chief Health Tutor position, the rollout of specialist nursing programmes, the reduction in the cost of nursing admission forms, improvements to the admissions process, the introduction of Bachelor of Science programmes in 14 nursing training colleges, and enhanced human resource management systems across Health Training Institutions.