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The Commission on
Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ) has ordered the Nursing and
Midwifery Council to register all affected pregnant students in the upcoming
external licensing examination in August.
The directive comes
after three student nurses, of the Mampong Nurses and Midwifery Training School
in the Ashanti Region, were prevented from registering for the examination because they were
pregnant.
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Although
two of them had delivered, the school authorities refused to allow them to
write the examination because of a rule that has been scrapped by the Ministry
of Health.
Human Right Lawyer, Mr
Francis Xavier-Sosu, whose law firm, F-X Law & Associates, took up the
case, on Friday filed a petition at CHRAJ, praying it to intervene.
“I want an immediate
intervention to ensure that the students register and write their licensing
examinations” he pleaded.
He said it was not too
late for the authorities to intervene because the registration process was
still open.
Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Sosu said CHRAJ is also expected to make
some appropriate recommendations to permanently resolve the problem.
“We are happy to note
that today CHRAJ has made an initial directive to all schools to ensure that
the affected students will be registered and can take part in the exams in
2016. It is important to note that this development does not only affect
students in Mampong.
“Indeed over the
weekend, we have had calls from other schools who were complaining about a
similar discrimination against them so we hoping that by this directive from
CHRAJ, at least there will be some immediate steps taken to get them registered
while CHRAJ makes some appropriate recommendation to resolve the problem.”
By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
[Publisher #Djashtogbeone]
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