Nurses at the Saboba Medical Centre (SMC) in the Northern Region have laid down their tools bringing health delivery in the district to a standstill.<\/p>\n
The nurses are protesting what they call, undue delays and refusal by the hospital management to pay them their rural allowance for a period of three years.<\/p>\n
They have since given the authorities up to the end of June, to pay them.<\/p>\n
President of the Saboba branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association, Eyal Tiajawan Moses in an interview with Citi News said they can no longer work under the current conditions.<\/p>\n
He explained that nurses in the district\u00a0take on extra responsibilities \u201cwhich is outside our job description. We are no more going to continue to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The added responsibilities include the prescription of medicines, administering of anesthesia at theatres before surgeries although they are not theatre nurses or nurse anesthetics and a host of others.<\/p>\n
He warned that if the hospital management does not address their concerns, \u201cand assure us that they are going to develop the hospital and reinstate the allowances, there is no way we are going to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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