{"id":380901,"date":"2017-12-08T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380901"},"modified":"2017-12-08T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T12:54:22","slug":"other-psychiatric-nurses-threaten-to-join-ankaful-nurses-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/other-psychiatric-nurses-threaten-to-join-ankaful-nurses-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Other psychiatric nurses threaten to join Ankaful nurses&#8217; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d68j3\" data-offset-key=\"9434c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9434c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9434c-0-0\">Psychiatric Nurses across the country have threatened to join striking nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region, to compel government to remove the Medical Director of the health facility, Dr. Eugene Dordoye, from his post.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d68j3\" data-offset-key=\"5nvoc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5nvoc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5nvoc-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d68j3\" data-offset-key=\"b0clt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b0clt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b0clt-0-0\">They want government to heed the call of the Ankaful Psychiatric nurses to ensure stability within the facility. The Ankaful nurses have been on a sit-down strike for about two weeks now, demanding the dismissal of their boss.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;j4w6VgdrcKbnWoE0c4Ky0U4g5OzKavIY&#8221;]Spokesperson for the Psychiatric nurses&#8217; group, Philip Frempong Okyere, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the Health Minister must act swiftly to restore peace at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no peace, and the nurses are not working, the patients are stranded. For one person to hold the whole institution to ransom, I think the Minister should look at it the second time. If the Health Minister makes any attempt to impose the man on the nurses, the other two psychiatric institutions and those working at the community level, we will also lay down our tools in support. The nurses and other professionals have clearly indicated that so long as the man remains, they are not going to work, and we support that call so we expect the Minister to act in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ankaful Nurses strike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The staff carried out their threat to <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/24\/our-strike-to-intensify-on-monday-if-ankaful-psychiatric-nurses\/\"><strong>lay down their tools<\/strong><\/a>, in an attempt to compel the\u00a0<strong>government\u00a0<\/strong>to remove the facility\u2019s Medical Director, Dr. Eugene Dordoye from his post.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>They are accusing the Medical Director of maladministration and gross disrespect to subordinates and have refused to return to work despite a four-page letter from Dr. Dordoye <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/23\/ankaful-psychiatric-hospital-director-apologizes-to-striking-nurses\/\"><strong>apologising to them<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatric Nurses across the country have threatened to join striking nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region, to compel government to remove the Medical Director of the health facility, Dr. Eugene Dordoye, from his post. \u00a0 They want government to heed the call of the Ankaful Psychiatric nurses to ensure stability within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":250497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,11],"tags":[14875,3,13530,12890],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Other psychiatric nurses threaten to join Ankaful nurses&#039; strike - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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