Kpembe Wura, Babanye Ndefosu II, of the Savannah Region has appealed to President Akufo-Addo administration to increase the admission quota for the Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College, which, he said, receives some 2,000 applications, but only admits some 200 students.
Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Kpembe, was established in December 2008 as one of the Ministry of Health Training Institutions to train Nurses and Midwives.
The school is located in Kpembe, a community located 2 kilometers East of the Salaga Municipality. Academic activities started in February 2008 with only the Nurse Assistant, Clinical (NAC) program.
In 2012, the Post-NAC/NAP midwifery program was introduced to complement the NAC program.
This was followed by the introduction of Registered General Nursing in 2013, and Registered Midwifery in 2014.
This brought the full complement of the academic program in the school to four, and gave true meaning to the current name of the school, “Nursing and Midwifery Training”.
From a very humble beginning, the school is now considered one of the best nursing training colleges in the country with enviable infrastructure, human resources, and a very good track record of success in the licensing exams.
The school had trained 604 midwives so far, and 1,562 nurses and currently has 22 classrooms and 2,542 library books.
Addressing President Akufo-Addo, on Monday 12th July 2021, when the latter paid a courtesy call on him at his palace, at the commencement of day 2 of the President’s tour of the Savannah Region, Babanye Ndefosu II also urged the President to consider establishing a satellite campus of the University of Education to absorb many graduates of the policy.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
