Some of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) executives deserve to be arrested and put behind bars for causing the premature death of citizens for government’s failure to implement conditions of service (COS) signed and supposed to have been implemented in July 2024.
Listening to Dr. Tenkorang on TV3, I have come to the realization that if the government does not do something URGENT, President Mahama will be surcharged with condoning with political pundits to cause death of INNOCENT AND VULNERABLE CITIZENS, which is already
happening in different parts of the country.
The LAW that should NEVER be broken by anyone or by any country is PRESERVATION OF LIFE. Homicide and genocide are all CAPITAL CRIMINAL offences. Even suicide attempt was considered criminal offence until recently when it was outlawed and now considered a psychiatric disorder.
This is deliberate decision to commit homicide of the poor, the vulnerable and rural dwellers. Executives of the on-going strike MUST be arrested immediately and let their lawyers go to court using the labour law and ILO law all of which they have violated.
I was at Tamale Teaching Hospital and I met the Director of Administration and the PRO busy mobilizing resources to avert any unnecessary deaths. I pledged I would not show the audiovisual I took.
I was later called by an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) of the National Ambulance Service (NAS), to narrate the ordeal the service went through yesterday from 5pm to 11pm at the TTH with two patients who later died.
Dr. Tekorang’s submission on TV appeared to explain the precedence leading to a reactivation of an intended strike withheld since 2015-2016 after NDC lost power and as if for the 8 years of NPP misrule, the matter was not visited because nurses were comfortable with the COS.
Are nurses and midwives of the following hospitals and Health Facilities NOT members of GRNMA?
1. 37 Military Hospital
2. Police Hospital
3. University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC)
4. BoG Hospital
5. GHAPOHA Hospital
6. OTHERS
Are they also on strike? If not is it not therefore a deliberate attempt to assassinate the vulnerable and voiceless in society who have nowhere to go BUT their early graves?
We cannot reset the system without some alleged “Richard Jakpa’s well informed style”. If we want to move forward as a country, government need to outlaw some statutory bodies
– Labour Commission
– G-TEC
– Others
They are the cause and NOT the solution to all industrial unrest at the highest level. Let employees (local chapter of their unions) with their immediate employers: Hospitals, Regional Directorates, Municipal, district and sub-district administrations).
The risk is not the same everywhere and you cannot expect to satisfy equally a nurse/midwife in KBTH and another Kperisi H/C. The nurse/midwife in the Kperisi H/C is a native and or lives there with the people….if you don’t get it forget it.
Finally, I was trained in one of the BEST MEDICAL SCHOOLS in world by my definition. In Cuba, a medical doctor, a nurse or any worker all cannot decide to go on strike.
Upon my return to Ghana in 2004 as a Gynaecologist I chose to be posted to Tamale. In 2006 May, there was a strike action by health workers. I forced open the labour ward and performed several normal deliveries and caesarean sections with a skeletal staff.
Two weeks later, there was another strike by health workers (GRNA). Because they heard of my action during the first strike, GRNA sent a strong message to the executives of the NR chapter to warm me and any Nurse/midwife or nurse anesthetist who would join me to weaken their strike…….That was what gave birth to my private maternity home now a fully-fledged hospital exactly NINETEEN YEARS AGO – JUNE 2006.
The truth is that, the nurse is abused, traumatized maimed and shamed. 90% of the duties they perform in the hospitals is NOT part of their prescribed jobs, but they do it to save lives.
Unfortunately, their worse enemies are themselves, especially their leaders at all levels.
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