The Psychiatric Nurses Group (PNG) at the Ankaful Hospital in Cape Coast are threatening to go on strike if their demand for the removal of Dr Eugene Dordoye as the Hospital Director is not acted upon.
The group also called for the release of the findings of a fact-finding committee set up by the Mental Health Authority to investigate allegations against Dr Dordoye.
Addressing a news conference at the hospital in Cape Coast on Wednesday, Public Relation Officer of the hospital, Emmanuel Kojo Ofori “Notice is hereby and duly served to the various stakeholders to hear the voices of the nurses and act accordingly; if not, we will advise ourselves by abandoning the wards and the OPD.”
The nurses, who wore red armbands, left their posts and attended the news conference to support their executive.
Staff of the Ankaful Hospital, the greater percentage of whom are nurses, on October 20, this year, petitioned the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, to remove Dr Dordoye as the Director of the hospital, on the grounds that his style of administration was oppressive and that he was psychologically traumatising the staff, among other allegations of mismanagement.
The group, which is a member of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, made a plethora of accusations against Dr Dordoye, among which was “trampling upon the fundamental human rights of the nurses”.
Mr Kojo Ofori claimed that Dr Dordoye made derogatory remarks about staff, particularly the nurse adding that: “He accuses staff wrongly and demeans us in the presence of student nurses, patients and their relatives.”
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Audio: Ankaful psychiatric nurses threaten strike
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