Annual report on the Gold Coast / Colonial Office.

  • Colonial Office
Date:
[1951]
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Credit: Annual report on the Gold Coast / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Non-Government nurses . . . . . . 219 Pupil and student nurses training in Government institutions ........ 477 Pupil nurses training in non-Government institutions 141 Government midwives ...... 57 Non-Government midwives . . . . . 186 Staff shortages were felt most acutely in the Nurses’ Training College. Here, the strength of the teaching staff fell so low at one time that a curtailment of the annual intake of pupils to the pre-nursing course appeared inevitable. Fortunately it was possible to avoid this. The shortage in the nursing sister grade is still great ; at the end of the year there were 14 vacancies to be filled even though the local employment in a temporary capacity of married women with nursing qualifications has continued. Training of Staff It continues to be the policy of the Government to promote in every way the training of Africans for all grades of medical work. Seven students were awarded medical scholarships during the year and they started the preliminary B.Sc. course at the University College of the Gold Coast. There is now a large number of students and scholars studying medicine who, it is hoped, will wish to enter Government employment after obtaining their qualifications. There are also seven dental scholars under training in the United Kingdom and six scholars who are taking courses in pharmacy leading to the M.P.S. qualification or the B.Pharm. degree. One private student already taking a course in radiography in the United Kingdom has been granted financial assistance to enable him to complete the course. Two X-ray assistants and one pupil X-ray assistant have been granted scholarships in radiography. Another student was granted a scholarship to enable him to study in the United Kingdom for Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. Two scholarships have been awarded for the course leading up to the Diploma of the Institute of Hospital Administrators and two female nurses holding the qualification of State Registered Nurse have been granted scholarships to take a Ward Sisters’ Course in the United Kingdom. One student has been awarded a scholarship for training with a view to appointment as ophthalmic and dispensing optician. The Nurses’ Training College at Korle Bu, with its modern buildings and up-to-date apparatus and equipment, continued, in spite of difficulties over maintaining the strength of the staff, to provide facilities for the training of nurses up to the S.R.N. qualification in the United Kingdom. The General Nursing Council of England and Wales has granted reciprocity to the College. The number of students attending the College at the end of the year was 161, a figure which includes 12 qualified male nurses specially selected to take a shortened course leading up to the S.R.N. qualification and granted scholarships for the purpose. The new central hospital at Kumasi, incorporating a second Nurses’
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