Nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to intensify their strike if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n
The staff carried out their threat to lay down their tools, in an attempt to compel the\u00a0government\u00a0<\/strong>t<\/span>o remove the facility\u2019s Medical Director, Dr. Eugene Dordoye from his post.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”dxnMRlrACf6hoDmRY9xS8adYS70ey3cH”]The nurses had earlier given the\u00a0government\u00a0a three-day ultimatum,and threatened to declare a strike, if the\u00a0government\u00a0fails to heed their calls.<\/p>\n They are accusing the Medical Director of maladministration and gross disrespect to subordinates.<\/p>\n Spokesperson for the Nurses, Daniel Danso, on Eyewitness News<\/strong> said the strike will be intensified by Monday if the Ministry of Health fails to meet their demands.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are still going to intensify our strike, but we are still in talks [with stakeholders] so we will have our sit down strike till Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re \u00a0not aware of any apology <\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Danso also indicated that, they are unaware of any apology from Mr. Dordoye.<\/p>\n Dr. Dordoye had issued an apology\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>in which he also explained what he believes might have angered the nurses to take such a move.<\/p>\n But Mr. Danso pointed out that they were yet to receive the apology saying \u201cAs we speak, we have not seen any apology from Dr. Dordoye.\u201d<\/p>\n Nature of strike\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Giving a detailed description on the nature of the strike, an Administrator at the hospital, Mr. Godwin Pongo, said: \u201cThey are on sit down strike with respect to out patient services. Only emergency cases are being attended to, meaning patients that come for review are not being attended to, but those that are aggressive are being attended to.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to their road-map, by Sunday if they do not hear anything from the sector minister, then they will declare a total strike from Monday, meaning they will not attend to patients that are on admission,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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