She said even though Tutors would guide them through the academic path to become responsible nurses to render health care, it was incumbent on them to show interest, and put in more efforts to achieve their aims as students.

“You will need to use your time well by doing research after every lesson taught. Do not relent in your quest for knowledge,” the Principal advised.

Madam Appoh was speaking at the matriculation ceremony of 109 students comprising 64 males and 45 females who are the 20th batch of Diploma students the college had admitted.She called on them to be security conscious and protect themselves from harm in everything they do and to work hard to improve on the academic performance of the college.

As Tutors, he said they would try their best to mould them socially, spiritually, psychologically and morally to become well-disciplined professionals.Madam Appoh said “the mandate of the Health Training Institution was to produce middle level health professionals. “We the Tutors have been carrying out this task effectively to the extent that when other health workers were leaving for greener pastures, we stayed to train more to fill the gap created.”

The Principal said the major challenge to the execution of their mandate was inadequate logistics and funding from the Ministry of Health (MOH), and expressed gratitude to the Deputy Minister of Health, the Upper East Region Minister, the Regional Health Directorate and the Health Training Secretariat for their intervention when the college was in crises.

She called on stakeholders to support the college to continue to train students to augment health care delivering in the country and congratulated the freshmen and women of the institution, and wished them a happy stay.

Mr Rockson Ayine Bukari, the Upper East Region Minister, advised the students to constantly keep in mind the reason for being in the college, and entreated them to carve a future for themselves to make their parents and nation proud.

To stay on this path, the Minister said hard work and discipline should be their watchwords and urged them to accord management of the college the needed respect to enable them to make their stay a meaningful and memorable one, instead of pitching camps against authority.

Mr Bukari expressed concern about the rude attitudes of some nurses at work and said they could not regard their patients whose taxes were used to train them as nuisance, or decide where to render their services after school. “Discipline and patriotism must be injected into our health trainees as part of their development,” he said.