The government announced on Wednesday that it was suspending the training of nurses indefinitely. The moves come when there is a high number of trained nurses who are unemployed. Training of nurses was suspended amid allegations of corruption in the recruitment of nurses by hospital officials.
In an interview with Newzimbawe.com yesterday, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Gerald Gwinji said
This is a temporary measure that we have put in place to suspend recruitment for candidates coming for this training in May 2019 and September 2019 going forward.
We want to fine tune our recruitment policy and processes so that they become standard and therefore we will be communicating the way forward by end of January next year.
… We are not stopping training; there will still be a May 2019 training. So, the resources issue is not relevant here.
We are looking at a number of issues here including geographical equity, quality and suitability of the student etc as well as fairness and equal opportunity to train.
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