William N. Jalulah
5 March 2010
THE NAVRONGO Community Training School has held a get-together and awards night for some deserving students and staff of the school at Tono, near Navrongo in the Kassenan-Nankana District.
The event, which was said to be the first of its kind in the school, saw the best academic student award going to Miss Umar Malida, while Master Amanah Elijah was adjudged the best clinical student. Master Solomon Anegah also took the special award. Other categories of awards were sports, prayer warriors, hard working but transferred staff, both teaching and non-teaching.
The splendid performance put up by the school's Drama Club earned Miss Yakubu Hawa GH¢100, while GH¢200 went to the club, all from the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. John Koku Awoonor-Williams.
The Principal of the School, Mr. David Amalba, praised the prefectural board of the school and the entire student body, for putting up a modern notice board for the school, and also for their collaboration with the school authorities to maintain discipline.
He also lauded dedication to duty by tutors, despite the numerous challenges confronting the school, and urged them to do more to achieve more educational laurels, of which the students would be the direct beneficiaries.
Dr. Awoonor-Williams advised the students to look at their backgrounds, and where they come from, and live accordingly on campus, to work towards their professional goals.
He warned them not to behave as if they were special brains, and that was why they gained admission into the school.
According to him, the GHS would not entertain indiscipline, whether by students or staff, because the service cherishes its cooperate image, and would safeguard it at all levels.
He regretted that about 70% of the health workforce, who by virtue of the Upper East Region had the opportunity to be trained, do not want to serve the region upon their completion, but rather want to go down south to serve.
Dr. Awoonor-Williams stated that if these same people had applied to the same health training schools in the south, they would not have got the opportunity, and warned seriously, those students who intend to move to the south after their complementation, and those who influence the transfer of trainees, to desist from the practice, because if they are caught, the least punishment would be suspension.
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