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Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses have vowed to spend one more night at the Health Ministry to press home their demand for appointment.
The leader of the group Derick Oduro expressed frustration that although government has bonded the nurses for five years, they are yet to be posted to any facility.
In an escalation of their desperation, the jobless nurses were seen, preparing to pass the night at the forecourt of the ministry. Some wore night clothes to keep away mosquitoes.
Joy News' Matilda Wemegah reported seeing pockets of health professionals sleeping on the car boots and crammed into spaces at the Health Ministry early Tuesday morning.


Others were already up pushing for their jobs. Matilda Wemegah reported that about a 100 affected nurses were gathered at the ministry.
They have grown even more agitated after government recently provided financial clearance for some 11,000 nurses to get jobs but did not include them in the list.
Derick Oduro explained that the 11,000 nurses who were given jobs were graduates from 2012 to 2016.
With the coalition being a group of 2015 graduates, they had expected to have been captured in the 11,000 others who are now employed.
But they were not. A situation which he said has left 937 nurses still without a job.
Even worse, they cannot be employed elsewhere until the 5-year bond expires in 2020. They have already spent two years of this bond whiling away the time at home.
Derick Oduro said the last time he worked was during his national service in 2015. Unable to bear the confidence-sapping condition of being without a job, the coalition is determined to pile pressure on government.
According to the Joy News' reporter, the agitated nurses plan to move to the Flagstaff House, the seat of government if the picketing at the health ministry fails to yield maximum results.

When Matilda Wemegah asked the picketing nurses if they had taken their baths, the nurses retorted, bathing was the least of their worries, at the moment.
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