The Council said that the new online system is to ease the difficulty associated with the manual process.
Licencing examination of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana will from July 2018 be conducted online.
The Council said that the new online system is to ease the difficulty associated with the manual process.
“We want to rest on ICT infrastructure to accelerate our performance. We want to see a situation where nurses and midwives can sit in their offices, homes, and various hospitals to log unto our website and renew their license” the Registrar of the Council, Felix Nyante said.
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He disclosed this at the Council’s 2017 mid-year review at Nsuta in the Ashanti region.
According to him, the Dutch government has provided a grant to the Council to enable it to strengthen its organizational capacity to conduct effective and credible licensing examination.
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On her part, the Chief Director at the Ministry of Health, Dr Afisah Zakariah, said: “The ministry is happy that the Council in collaboration with a consortium in the Netherlands called CINOP Global will be introducing the online licencing examination in 2018.
"This will ease the laborious processes engaged in the old manual system and make licensing examination in Ghana a trustworthy one.”
The Council said that the new online system is to ease the difficulty associated with the manual process. Read Full Story
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