Trainee nurses have been advised not to allow marriage and childbirth to hinder them from pursuing further education as this could affect their future.

The principal of the Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the East Gonja Municipality of the Northern Region who gave the advice observed that education remains one of the surest ways one could solidify his or her future and therefore appealed to them to make it a priority.

At the second graduation ceremony for a total of 1,484 including the 2012 batch of students with about 108 graduating with distinction from the four programs comprising Nursing Assistant Clinical (NAC), Registered General Nursing (RGN) and Post Basic Midwifery and Registered Midwifery, Hajia Shirley Issah observed that childbirth and marriage are both good but should not be chosen to the neglect of education.

She said, graduating from a training school is a milestone in the educational pursuit and called on them to take advantage of various institutions in the country that run health-related programs to obtain other higher degrees and certificates.

” I know most of you are married and are ‘baby mamas’ now but don’t allow your marriages to be a hindrance to your quest to further your education as it will help you update yourselves the more as you will also obtain other certificates, ” she said at the event covered by MyNewsGH.com’s Christopher Amoako

Hajia Shirley Issah also used the occasion to call on the students to cultivate the habit of saving to be able to take care of themselves and to further their education.

She mentioned that though the school has chalked some successes in academics and infrastructure, it is still faced with several challenges citing inadequate staff accommodation, lack of access to potable water, delay in completion of a two-storey Getfund projects and lack of access roads in the school and called on the Managing Director Ghana Water Company Dr. Clifford Braimah and other stakeholders and sons of the land to come to their aid to remedy the situation.

On his part, Dr. Clifford Braimah MD Ghana Water Company urged the graduates to see their profession as a calling since it has to do with saving lives.

“Your profession is a calling, it’s not a profession that you can put monetary value ahead of anything and so we shouldn’t allow monetary gains to lead us as we go into the world to perform our duties ” he advised.

He added that government is committed to improving quality health care across the country and urged graduates to accept Postings to the District to transform health care delivery in the country.