The Fomena Community Nurses Training school established over a decade ago is affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and has since trained over one thousand nurses who are serving at the deprived areas in the country. The School has a very wide compound befitting of its status, however lack of infrastructure is preventing management from increasing intake. While some of structures started close to 50years are left in the bush at a foundation level, the few that have been developed cannot match with the students on campus; the school library can only accommodate less than 50 students with the student population of over three hundred.
Speaking at a ceremony to officially admit two hundred and 51 fresh students to pursue two year training in community nursing, the principal of the school, Mrs. Lynda Rockson Banful Mante was happy that the District Assembly, MP for the area and the Adansi Traditional for their efforts in supporting the school to deliver on its mandate, but said there is much room for improvement. The District Director of Health Services, Madam Gertrude Mante administered the Matriculation Oath. The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexia Nang-Beifubah asked the graduates of the school to accept postings to the deprived areas as a pre-condition for admission into the school. He also promised to assist the school to meet its infrastructural and logistics demands. The newly installed Paramount Chief of the Adansi Traditional Area, Nana Bonsra Afriyie added his voice to the call on government not to scrap the nursing and teacher trainee’s allowances as the decision will affect the marginalized who cannot afford full school fees payment
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