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Kpembe, Ghana – The Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the East Gonja Municipality on Saturday March 24, 2017 held its second graduation ceremony for a total of 1,484 students.
The graduates included students who completed in 2012 with about 108 graduating with distinction from four programs comprising Nursing Assistant Clinical (NAC), Registered General Nursing (RGN), Post Basic Midwifery and Registered Midwifery.
Principal of the College Hajia Shirley Issah admonished the second batch of graduates from the school not to allow marriage and child birth to hinder them from furthering their education.
She said, graduating from a training school is a milestone in their educational pursuit and called on them to take advantage of various institutions in the country that run health related programs to obtain other certificates.
“I know most of you are married and are baby mama’s now but don’t allow your marriages to be a hindrance to your quest to further your education as it will help you update yourselves the more as you will also obtain other certificates ” she said.
Hajia Shirley Issah also used the occasion to call on the students to cultivate the habit of saving to be able to take care of themselves and to further their education.
She mentioned that though the school has chalked some successes in academics and infrastructure, it is still faced with several challenges notable among them, she said, are inadequate staff accommodation, lack of access to potable drinking water, delay in completion of a two storey GETFund project and lack of access roads in the school.
She appealed to the Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited, Dr. Clifford Braimah and other well wishers who graced the graduation ceremony to come to their aid.
Dr. Clifford Braimah seized the opportunity to urge the graduates to see their profession as a calling to safe lives.
“Your profession is a calling, it’s not a profession that you can put monetary value ahead of anything and so we shouldn’t allow monetary gains to lead us as we go into the world to perform our duties ” he said.
He added that government is committed to improving quality healthcare across the country and urged graduates to accept postings to the districts to transform healthcare delivery in the country.
By Savannahnewsonline.com
