The Tepa Nursing and Midwifery Training College is in dire need of additional tutors and infrastructural expansion for excellent academic work.
The school runs three programmes, which includes General Nursing, Midwifery and Health Assistants in the Ahafo Ano North Municipality, but faces the problem of adequate teaching staff.
Mr. Albert Opoku, Principal of the College, explained that the institution, with a population of 1,200, was now one of the best in the country on two campuses at Tepa and Anyinasuso.
Principal Opoku said four of the tutors had left to seek greener pastures, and study are also leaving, contributing to the current challenges, hence, the need for more qualified tutors under the Ghana Tertiary Council and Nurses and Midwifery standards to enable the institution start a degree programme within two years.
He disclosed that the Ministry of Health was putting measures in place to upgrade the College to Tertiary level.
Mr. Opoku stated that the college needed emergency nursing, pharmacology and anatomy physiologists with higher grades at the masters’ level to enhance administration of drugs, prescriptions, and dispensing.
The Principal also mentioned infrastructural expansion, in terms of classrooms, students’ hostels, and tutors’ bungalows as some challenges affecting effective teaching and learning.
He added that the school was in need of some recreational facilities that would also contribute to academic excellence, as well as an improved means of transport to move the students to and from the two campuses, especially during clinical or practical programmes.
