The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) is demanding swift action from government following an attack on a nurse at the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
The Association has given authorities 48 hours to arrest the suspect, Ralph Saint Williams or risk asking their members in the hospital to remove themselves from the work environment.
The leadership of the Association made the demand during a visit to the hospital where the assaulted nurse, Rejoice Bortei, is currently receiving treatment.
They visited the Ridge Hospital on August 18, following a disturbing incident involving a man identified as Ralph Saint Williams and a nurse on duty.
According to the nurse, Rejoice Bortei, she was physically assaulted by Ralph Saint Williams, resulting in severe body pain.
She has since been admitted to the emergency ward of the hospital for treatment.
“From my back to my chest they assaulted me. I was hit with a fist I can’t describe the pain, the Ralph guy did this to me, he hit me with the phone. I even dodged some of things and right now I have a dislocation on my right shoulder,” she narrated.
The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, visited the nurse on August 18, 2025, and assured her of the government’s commitment to a thorough investigation.
But the leadership of the Nurses and Midwives Association is not satisfied.
They’ve issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the government to arrest the suspect or face possible action.
The General Secretary of GRNMA, Dr. David Tenkorang Twum said, “we came here on the behest of the President Perpetual Ofori Ampofo who asked us to meet Management and to also listen from their perspective, the measures that they have been put in place to mitigate what has happened, we are not happy at all our people are traumatised.”
He added that, “we met Management on those set of measures that they have put in place, we think that they are not adequate or right to guarantee the safety of our members and our people have told us that they are not safe, if anybody can walk into a facility like Ridge hospital and throw his weight about, beat nurses and midwives and we have other party apparatchiks calling them to urge them, then it is unfortunate. We can turn Ghana into a banana Republic.”
Dr Tenkorang Twum urged government to “arrest the guy and his eight accomplices within forty-eight hours or we shall advise ourselves.”
The Association says it will consider further action if the government fails to respond within the stated timeframe.
” Very unfortunate, we even saw the Minister of Health embracing this gentleman who is purported to have assaulted the nurses and midwives in such an affectionate embrace. We think that is uncalled for we don’t know at what material moment the Minister embraced the young man, but I am told it was after they had had interaction with Management, meaning that the Minister was adequately briefed about the perpetrators of this crime yet he went about embracing the gentleman. We find that unfortunate,” he lamented.
