Nurses in the country will import cars with engines less than 1.8 capacity for free if Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, becomes the president in 2025.

This was announced by Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, who is widely known as ‘Napo, the NPP vice presidential candidate on Wednesday.

“Dr Bawumia, the incoming President of Ghana, will provide free duty on vehicles with engine capacities less than 1.8 capacity for nurses”, he said at the Korle Bu Nursing and Midwifery Training Institute in Accra.

Even before Napo could complete his statement, the overly excited nursing trainees present at the function were seen shouting and jumping in admiration of the pleasant news.

Napo stated that the NPP and Dr Bawumia, in particular, appreciate the significant contributions of nurses in the provision of healthcare to the citizenry.

In this regard, Dr Prempeh assured that the next NPP administration would implement new policies to help make life better and more comfortable for nurses in the country.

“The NPP recognizes and appreciates the key roles that our nurses play in the provision of healthcare to the people, so we shall also make sure that your lives will be better.

“As I said already, there will be free importation of vehicles with engines less than 1.8 capacity for our dear nurses among other important interventions to make you (nurses) live better and comfortably”, he stated.

According to him, the nursing trainee allowance policy, which is a brainchild of the NPP administration, would be maintained by Dr Bawumia’s NPP government.

He sternly cautioned that the nursing trainee allowance would definitely be scrapped if the electorates mistakenly voted for former President John Mahama and the NDC.

“Former President John Mahama and the NDC don’t believe in the nursing trainee allowance, so they will scrap it and make life difficult for you so reject the NDC”, he said.

Dr Prempeh also said a number of the hospitals, being built under the NPP government’s Agenda 111 programme, would be completed this year to boost healthcare delivery.

According to Napo, the completion of the Agenda 111 hospitals would help to provide employment opportunities for more nurses and other health professionals.

Dr Prempeh appealed to nurses and nursing trainees in the country to vote for Dr Bawumia and all the 275 NPP parliamentary candidates “since the NPP care for our nurses”.