The mandatory leave which takes effect on Thursday, March 26, 2020, is in compliance with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s precautionary directives to help curb the spread of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Ghana.

In a press statement issued on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 and signed by the Executive Director of the NSS, Mr Mustapha Ussif, it said all newly posted nurses who are due to start national service in April are also to take the month of April 2020 as their terminal leave.

Below is a copy of the statement