Nurses at Manhyia District Hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, have called off their planned indefinite strike.
This was revealed in a statement issued by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) on Friday, December 2, 2022.
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) at the hospital had declared a strike last week in response to the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Secretariat, Mr Alex Opoku Mensah’s (NSS) verbal attack on one of its members.
However, the GRNMA, even before the strike could materialise, announced its decision to call off the strike.
According to GRNMA, this is to give the committee appointed by the National Service Secretariat enough time to examine Mr Alex Opoku Mensah’s actions.
A 72-hour ultimatum was given to the government to dismiss Mr Opoku Mensah after he was heard in a viral audio exchanging harsh words with a lady who is reportedly a nurse at the Manhyia District Hospital, where his daughter is also undergoing horsemanship training.
It is alleged that the house officer needed to update a patient’s prescription order by logging into the e-health system.
For that reason, the nurse asked the house officer to rectify the error, but that did not sit well with Mr Opoku and his daughter.
Following the incident, the leadership of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association asked nurses at the hospital to lay down their tools from Friday, 2nd December 2022 if the NSS boss is not sacked.
The one-day strike halted operations at the hospital, per reports, some patients were freed to continue their care at home while others were transferred to other hospitals.
Source: The Independent Ghana