According to the agreement between the two countries, Barbados will continue to receive assistance from Ghana’s government in the form of nurses, according to Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
On Friday, November 15, 2019, at Jubilee House, during the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Motley’s courtesy call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Ghana and Barbados inked a contract for the hiring of nurses from Ghana.
We are encouraged that they have significantly improved our public healthcare system, and we appreciate the government of Ghana for that kindest gesture, said Ms Mottley. “We have finished an interview for another 200 nurses to come to Barbados in the near future,” she added.
After the contract was signed, Ms Mottley said, “We thank the government of the people of Ghana for that kindest gesture, and we are encouraged that they have made a significant difference to our public healthcare system, so much so that we have completed an interview for another 200 nurses to come to Barbados in the near future.”
When Ms Motley visited the 6th March Independence Day event earlier this year, she mentioned that Barbados was anticipating the arrival of 200 more Ghanaian nurses.
She said that the nurses would supplement the island nation’s personnel requirements.
I’m standing here on your Independence Day to express my gratitude to the people of Ghana for helping us fill our nursing shortage by sending the first 95 nurses to Barbados in July 2020.
Dr Bawumia stressed the need for persons of African and Caribbean origin to have a renewed perspective that shifts from one of the impossibilities to a mindset of possibilities during his participation in the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in Barbados on Sunday, September 4.
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“Both Africa and the Caribbean have numerous advantages that can be used to hasten development and the emancipation of their citizens, but it is only when we have a resolute, can-do mindset that we will succeed.”
“I also met with the leadership of Ghanaian nurses assisting in healthcare delivery in Barbados as part of a bilateral arrangement between the governments of Ghana and Barbados on the sidelines of the Forum.”
“The Ghanaian government will continue to provide nurses to Barbados in accordance with the agreement.”
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