No Immigration Officer Should Prevent A Nurse From Traveling Abroad- GRNMA President

The President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has told immigration officers never to prevent any nurse or midwife seeking to move out of the country.

Ms. Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, the President of the Association, said it is legal for any nurse or midwife who has a valid passport, visa, and traveling ticket to move to any country of his or her choice.

She noted that some nurses are being requested to submit their proof of resignation before they are given immigration clearance to travel.

She urged the immigration officers to stop those intimidations at the borders.

“If I have my passport, I have a visa and I have my ticket to travel and I am going through immigration, no immigration officer has any right to ask me for my resignation letter or any of such, it doesn’t work that way”.

“People should not use any such means to intimidate our nurses and midwives who may be traveling, we are all Ghanaians and we all seek to live better lives. How I choose to do it is my decision”, Ms. Ofori-Ampofo noted in an interview with TV3.

Madam Perpetual highlighted that the mass movement of nurses to developed countries is a result of the poor treatment meted out to them.

She said health workers are being paid poorly in Ghana so the next step to make as a trained nurse or midwife is to look somewhere else where the profession is valued.