Gov’t secures scholarships for over 30 health tutors for PhD studies

The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has stated that the government has secured scholarships for more than 30 health tutors to pursue PhD programmes as part of efforts to strengthen specialist nursing education and improve healthcare delivery.

He announced this at the joint matriculation ceremony for specialised nursing students on Thursday, June 25.

Akandoh said the initiative is aimed at building the capacity of health tutors to train more specialist nurses needed to address critical gaps in the health sector.

He noted that the evolving healthcare landscape, driven by advances in medicine, technology, and changing disease patterns, requires highly skilled professionals.

“Our vision is to produce additional nurse specialists to fill the critical gaps within our healthcare system locally and also support the government’s managed migration policy,” he said.

He added that achieving this goal requires sustained investment in infrastructure, equipment, human resources, and system strengthening.

According to him, the scholarships form part of broader reforms, including the transition to competency-based nursing curricula, designed to enhance the quality of health training in the country.

“With the reduction of competency-based curricula for nursing education, we have secured over 30 scholarships for health tutors to pursue PhD programmes,” he added.