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Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, Upper West Regional Minister has announced that Cabinet has approved the construction of 12,400 housing units across the country for health and education professionals.He said the housing units when completed, would be allocated to the beneficiaries to enhance effective service delivery, the minister told members of the Upper West Branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association in Wa during this year’s “Nurses Week” celebration on Tuesday.The celebration was on the theme: “Nurses and Midwives; caring and advocating for a peaceful election 2012”.Alhaji Sulemana urged the nurses to continue to work hard while the project was being executed, explaining that even though not everybody was going to benefit from the initial number of units to be provided, many of them would be supplied during the subsequent years.He paid a tribute to members of the association and all other health workers for their dedication and professionalism in helping patients live longer and more productive lives, while on its part government was also addressing issues of quality, accessibility and equity and bringing hope to the people.He appealed to nurses to treat their clients humanely, pointing out that in recent times there had been a pubic outcry about unacceptable treatment some health professionals were meting out to their patients who came to health facilities for medical attention.Alhaji Sulemana pleaded with nurses to live up to the expectation of their clients by adopting acceptable practices and innovations that would impact positively on health care outcomes.
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