Allied Health Professionals withdraw from coronavirus contact tracing

The Coalition of Graduate Unemployed Allied Health Professionals (COAHP), has withdrawn its services in the ongoing contact tracing, sample taking and testing for Coronavirus across the country.

This, the Coalition says, is in reaction to the unfair treatment that has been meted out to the 2017/2018 batch of Allied Health Professionals by the Ministry of Health.

“We

Read full articlehave had several engagements with the Ministry of Health and our names were submitted with our colleagues (2017 diploma nurses) to the Ministry of Finance for financial clearance. Follow-ups were done to this effect and the Ministry of Health promised us that, latest by March our financial clearance will be granted, we thereby could not fathom why only the nurses were granted leaving Allied Health Professionals,” the group noted in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Vincent Amponsah Gyamfi.

The Coalition further urged the public to be wary of persons who will pose as Allied Health professionals to do contact tracing as they are no longer undertaking the exercise.

“Contact tracing, sample taking, testing and all public health activities are strictly the work of certified Allied Health Professionals,” the statement reads.

They also noted that they are considering a peaceful demonstration to further drive home their demands.

Read the full statement below