The Ministries of Health and Finance are pleading with the striking Ghana Registered Nurses’ and Midwives’ Association (GRNMA) to call off the strike and return to the negotiation table.
According to the Ministries, the demand of the GRNMA when fully implemented in its current form will throw the 2025 budget out of gear.
At a joint news conference by the Ministries at the Presidency on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, the Minister of health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh decried the burden the economy will bear if the demands are implanted.
“We wish to draw attention to the fact that the conditions of service under reference are not captured in the 2025 budget and will completely throw the economy off-gear if implemented immediately in the manner it currently exists.
We are mindful of the serious economic consequences of un budgeted expenditure and want to avoid the economic slippages that led to hardships in the recent past” he stated
On his part, Deputy Finance Minister, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, plead that the implementation be done in 2026. He maintains that the current number of nurses numbering over On Hundred and Twenty Thousand (120,000) will have a dire consequences on the budget.
He says implementing the demand will require additional two billion cedis from the national budget.
Meanwhile government continues to engage the nurses through the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission as it has asked retired nurses and midwives to volunteer their services to health facilities that the strike has been implemented.
