The Allied Health Professionals Council is appealing to government to address unemployment issues among its members.

The council is worried Allied Health Graduates face major unemployment challenges since it takes a long time to employ them after their training programme.

Registrar of the Council, Dr Samuel Yaw Opoku made the appeal during an induction and oath swearing ceremony of some 1300 allied health graduands at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

"A visit to our health facilities points to acute shortage of this highly trained professionals I'm therefore making a passionate appeal to the government to address this critical issue so that the population will benefit from this highly trained professionals whose training was largely financed by the tax payer" he said.

Meanwhile the guest speaker on the day Prof. Francis Agyemang Yeboah says government should take a serious look at health care financing in order to achieve universal health coverage.

"Financing healthcare should be seen as an investment not cost because the benefits of investing in health can be 20 times greater than any cost incurred" he added.