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Mr. Chairman, fellow executives of NAHSAG, Presidents of the various NMAs gathered
here, ladies and gentlemen, I am highly delighted to stand before you to deliver to you the
state of NAHSAG.

Firstly, I wish to express my sincere appreciation to you, our noble members for your
steadfastness and hope in NAHSAG, even in the face of the various challenges we faced
and are still facing.

The mantle of leadership was ceremoniously handed over to the my executive board on
the 5th of February, 2010 at the School of Hygiene auditorium in Korle-Bu. Prior to the
handing over, we needed to make frantic efforts to secure NAHSAG properties and
documents from the then outgoing President before he leaves for the States for further
studies. We also secured some spoilt computers of NAHSAG from the Coordinating
Secretary. Efforts to retrieve a color printer from the 2nd Vice president proved futile- he
never picked our calls or replied our message.


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A secretariat located at Kaneshie was handed over to us. In actual fact, the location of the
secretariat was not the best for a health students¶ association and moreover, the landlord
of the place claimed that the previous administration owed him close to GHC 1000 as
rent and that we could only use the place if we settle the debt. Calls made on the past
administration to come to a clarify issues yielded no result. No valid tenancy agreements
were also handed over to us. Considering the financial status of the Association at the
time, with a little over GHC 400 in our account, the best we could do was to think of how
to settle the debt and then relocate the secretariat. We ended up settling some of the
money owed from other sources and succeeded in relocating the secretariat to its current
placed at School of Hygiene Students (SOH) Hostel, Korle-Bu. Here we want to thank
the past and present SRC presidents of SOH-K¶bu for their efforts in making the
relocation possible. These are the items in the secretariat:

Two office desks

A big conference table and 10 chairs

Two computers

Two printers
 Two office cabinet

Supporting computers (1 functional, 3 non functional)

Considering the financial crisis in which we meet the Association, the Executive body
adopted measures to bring in some funds. These were not limited to:

4 Proposal to various institutions and companies to partner us in our programmes

4 Proposal for sponsorship to MOH/GHS for our activities and programmes
4 Appealing to some parliamentarians and Alumni of NAHSAG for support
4 Constant appeals to our NMAs to pay their dues.
4 mistribution of envelopes to seek for fund
4 Attempt to secure Hepatitis B vaccines at a low cost from the misease Control
Unit and sell it to our NMAs at a much cheaper rate than those being sold outside.

Mr. Chairman, I must say that, all these efforts could not raise any significant amount of funds.

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1. mealing with issues surrounding our secretariat

2. Celebrating NAHSAG¶s day
3. mealing with Kintampo Rural Health Training School Crisis
4. Fight for graduates from School of Nursing to secure indexing for licensure exams
5. Organize a capacity building workshop for our members
6. Organize medical outreach programmes to deprive villages and communities
7. Participate in World HIV/AImS and TB proogrammes.
8. Search for a patron
9. Become a member of NUGS
10.Add new NMAs
11.Affiliate with or become members of National Youth Council.

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1. Successful Resolution of problem between Graduates from School of Nursing-

Legon and the Nurses and Midwives¶ Council and to that effect getting index
numbers for all who were currently in school with disputed results per the NMC
standard.
 2. Successful reduction in the fees paid by students from the Kintampo Rural
Training Health Training School & Nursing Training colleges.
3. NAHSAG became a member of the National Union of Ghana Students with a
Bloc on its own and to that effect, NAHSAG is duly represented on the National
Executive Committee of NUGS.
4. Gain recognition by the National Youth Council as the Head of its Health
Network together with KRAPPA
5. Successful relocation of Secretariat to Korle-Bu
6. Organized medical outreach programmes to Kasoa, Nsawam, weija, Ada.
7. Acquired hepatitis B vaccination for Ho and Korle-Bu Nursing training Colleges
on low cost base.
8. Resolution of feeding fee issues between Students of Ho NTC and their
administration
9. Prompting government on the need to employ the 1440 students from the three
schools of hygiene in the country after the cholera outbreak which led to the
initiation of process by the Ministry of Local Government to employ about 700 of
them.
10.Organized sensitization programme to Kosoa, Korle Gonno and Chokor during
the cholera out break
11.Working together with the three schools of hygiene to form a federation for
hygiene students
12.Visited all our member associations
13.Organized committee of presidents meetings
14. Addition of 2 new member Associations
15.Making our voices heard.




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1. Inability to celebrate NAHSAG day

2. Inability to get a Patron
3. Unable organize a capacity building programme
4. Inability to raise enough funds for our activities.


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1. Withdrawal of financial support by the MOH

2. NMAs failing to pay their dues
3. Lack of commitment on part of some members
4. Non functional Secretariat
5. Some non functional Executive members

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1. Some of my Executives were selfless, hardworking and they persevered till date. I would like to
single out Mr. Benjamin Sena Awuku, my 2nd Vice President for his great works and support.
2. We were very responsive to issues affecting members of NAHSAG
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1. The fight for all graduates from Tamale, Ho and Accra school of hygiene to be posted is still on.
2. Pushing for the accreditation of School of hygiene by the NACB.
3. The push for the passage of the Allied Health Bill and the Mental Health bill is on.
4. Vacation attachment for interested health students which shall attract some allowance proposal
submitted to the Ministry already.
5. Greater collaboration with NUGS and NYC in the organization of Health related programmes and
the likes.
6. Searching for a Patron
7. Celebration of AU day.

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1. Punitive measures for NMAs that fail to pay their dues.

2. Generating funds for the Association. The How?
3. Constitutional Amendments to reflect our stands in NUGS and the National Youth Council

Mr. Chairman, the house, when this noble association was formed in 2005, it had a vision, a vision to
unite all health students under an umbrella and to empower them, to use their skill whilst in school for the
benefit of our society, by 2009, the momentum with which the Association started had gradually
dwindled. We knew what lay ahead of us when we got to know the true state of NAHSAG at our last
congress in University of Ghana. We came into office with no structure to build on, but today, we know
where we have taken NAHSAG. We have managed to streamline our ideal and what we stand for. It is
our hope that by the time we end this congress, the leaders that will emerge will build on the various
structures we have laid down. I promise my unflinching support for them throughout their executive year.

Thank you.

LONG LIVE NAHSAG

LONG LIVE THE HEALTH STUmENTS¶ FRONT

LONG LIVE GHANA