Mahama Cares Initiative: GTEC to Speed Up Accreditation for Specialized Training Programmes
The Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Ahmed Jinapor-Abdulai says that GTEC has laid down measures to fast-track accreditation process for the proposed Post-Basic Specialised Training Programmes to be run under the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (Mahama Cares) Initiative.
Prof. Jinapor-Abdulai said this on Monday, February 2, 2026, when he paid a courtesy call on the Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC), Madam Philomina A. N. Woolley at her office in Accra to discuss how GTEC and N&MC can collaborate to get accreditation for the Post-Basic Specialised Training Programmes under the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (Mahama Cares) Initiative. He was accompanied by the Director for Accreditation, Mr. Saaka Sayuti, The Head of Legal, Mr. Felix Awuah, the Head of Accreditation (Nursing & Allied Health Department), Mrs. Abena Asafu-Adjaye Nkrumah and the Head of Public Relations and Protocol, Mr. Charles Mbeah.
Madam Philomina A. N. Wooley said she was privileged to receive the Director-General and his team on their first visit to her office. She informed the team that five nursing and midwifery institutions namely the Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), Tamale, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Nursing School, Kumasi, Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC),Kumasi, Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), Korle-Bu, and the Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nursing School (PON/CCN), Korle-Bu have been selected to run degree programmes in Emergency Nursing, Cardiology Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Endocrinology Nursing, Nephrology Nursing and Oncology Nursing.
Prof. Jinapo-Abdulai commended the Registrar for working diligently in regulating the nursing and midwifery education in Ghana and assured her of his support in getting the specialized programmes accredited within the shortest possible time.
