The Hospital Orderlies Association of Ghana, HOAG, has called on the government to provide them with the necessary equipment for their work.
The group, made up of assistant health workers and janitors said the unavailability of protective equipment and proper cleaning materials is putting their lives at risk.
[contextly_sidebar id=”G4m9VSY9CtNb7fEbGedH8Rqljezbjnpu”]The spokesperson for the Association, Beatrice Safo in an interview accused the government of neglect, adding that “ they think most of us are illiterate, so anything that we need to do our work they don’t give us the tools.”
She added that most times they purchase the cleaning equipments they use “the tools that we used to do our work like working gear, boats they hardly provide and sometimes we buy the brooms,” she lamented.
Beatrice Safo therefore called on the government to look into their plight because of the vulnerability of their job adding that “this job sometimes makes us sick because we are in the theatres, mortuaries, wards, consulting rooms and everywhere in the hospital.”
She admitted that their job was an important one adding that “if you go any hospital and the hospital is neat and nice it is the Orderlies.”
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By: Patricia Conteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana