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The Acting Minister of Health and Minister of State at the Presidency Dr. Mustapha Ahmed says irregularities in the allowance payment schedules for nursing trainees submitted by Nursing Training Institutions accounted for what appears to be the non-payment of the students allowances. He said some students who have completed their training since 2001 continue to draw allowance while other trainees from unknown institutions found themselves on the allowance payment list. Dr. Mustapha Ahmed said this on the floor of the Parliament in answering a question posed by the MP for Akim Oda Wiiliam Agyapong Quiatoo on when the allowances of the 2012 and 2013 batches of nursing trainees will be paid since some of the students are being sacked from school for non-payment of school fees. The Minister told the House that based on the lists of students submitted, Government has paid 140 million Cedis to nursing trainees across the country from January 2013 to April 2014. He also told the house that the Ministry has not directed Hospitals to sack casual workers but asked them to use their internally generated funds to engage the auxiliary workers they need in their operations.