The President of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA), Mrs. Alice Asare-Allotey, has called on the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Council to sanction private clinics that recruit unlicensed nurses. She said some private clinics have employed some student nurses who did not pass their licential examination and that is unprofessional. Speaking to Adom News, Mrs. Asare-Allotey indicated that the Midwives Council must apply the necessary sanctions against the private clinics that engage in this practice because it poses a danger to patients who receive treatment from those clinics. She said if the phenomenon is not checked by the Council, innocent people will suffer, so something urgent needs to be done. In a related development, Mrs Asare-Allotey has also called on the Council to publish the names of all nurses who passed their liscential examination so that the general public and the clinics will know the qualified nurses. She said the GRNA is not happy about the massive referral of the student nurses who wrote their licential examination this year, adding that full scale investigations will be conducted to ascertain the cause of the high number of referrals. Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Council, Mr. Eric Mensah has disclosed that nurses who practice without the appropriate license will be arrested and prosecuted. He told Adom News that they lack the logistics to monitor the activities of the private clinics, so the general public can help the Council with information to clamp down the activities of notorious ones. Mr. Eric Mensah said the council will report all the private clinics that are recruiting half-baked nurses to the Private Hospitals and Maternity Homes Board, a board that is responsible for overseeing their activities to deal drastically with them.