COVID-19: Contact Tracers Threaten To Quit If Government Does Not Employ Them
The group has given government a week ultimatum to address their concern.
Jonas Danquah 
Members of the Coalition of Graduate Unemployed Allied Health Professionals have threatened to quit the covid-19 contact tracing duties, if government does not give them fixed employment status.
According to the Coalition, made up of public trained health professionals in the field of disease control, medical records assistants, field technicians, and medical laboratory technicians, government has a week ultimatum to address their concern.
In a statement signed by Vincent Amponsah Gyamfi, the General Secretary of the Coalition, the group expressed shock that the Health Ministry processed nurses and midwives for posting without including allied health professionals.
“Our attention has been drawn to a letter with reference number MOH/HR/IT/005 from the Ministry of Health indicating that, nurses and midwives have been given financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance leaving behind Allied Health professionals who heeded calls from the President and the Ghana Health Service to aid in the contact tracing of Covid-19 patients,” it read.
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But the Coalition believes government is taking undue advantage of its members, hence the decision to withdraw from the exercise until their posting is confirmed.
