The presidential hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to explore the option of exporting nurses as part of strategies to alleviate unemployment in Ghana.

During a visit to the Savannah Region, where he engaged with student nurses, the former president emphasized that deploying nurses abroad would be a more viable solution than having them unemployed within the country.

Mahama stressed the importance of ensuring gainful employment for nurses after completing their education. To implement this, he proposed the establishment of a dedicated unit at the Ministry of Employment tasked with recruiting nurses who meet international standards for deployment.

“We want to increase the production of health workers and nurses, and we will employ them to work for us as many as we can, but at the same time, we will sign agreements with other countries where we can post our nurses to go and work on fixed contracts.

"So under the Ministry of Employment, we will have a unit that can recruit nurses and make sure they are of the standard that can work in international hospitals.”

He outlined the plan to have a specialized unit within the Ministry of Employment responsible for recruiting nurses and ensuring they meet the required standards for international hospital employment.