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  • GHS Director General Petitioned to Punish Illegally Striking Nurses

    GHS Director General Petitioned to Punish Illegally Striking Nurses

    A private citizen, Adnan Adams Mohammed, has petitioned the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to punish the nurses who participated in the illegal strike on Friday, December 2, 2022, at the Manhyia Municipal hospital in accordance to its administrative laws and powers.

    Mr Mohammed indicated that, failure on the part of the GHS to punish the illegally striking nurses, he will forced to petition the Supreme Court to force the GHS to apply it powers.

    Below is the full petition:

    From:

    Hse No. KZ424/3, Kasoa Zongo

    02/12/2022 

    To:

    The Director General

    Ghana Health Service

    Accra

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    PETITION CALLING ON GHANA HEALTH SERVICE TO ENFORCE ITS ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS TO CALL ILLEGALLY STRIKING NURSES AT MANHYIA HOSPITAL BACK TO WORK AND TAKE PUNITIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE NURSES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT 

    In the interest of public order, peace and security, as a concern law abiding citizen of the Republic of Ghana, who upholds all legal frameworks of the land, I write to petition the Ghana Health Service to as a matter of urgency enforce its administrative laws to call the illegally striking nurses at the Manhyia Municipal hospital to return to post and punish same for breach of their contract.

    Relative to the administrative legal framework for the engagement of the nurses under the Ghana Health Service supervision and management, the nurses have no locus to put the lives of innocent citizens in peril to seek for their private interest or make demands for which they have no any legal powers of determination. 

    In the matter where they ‘allege’ that, a colleague staff nurse has been abused by another public servant does not, in any way, guarantee their justification to sacrifice sick Ghanaians live to death and pains against their Conditions of Service as captured under the Code of Ethics of The Ghana Health Service. 

    Point three (3) of the Ghana Health Service Conditions of Service (Code of Ethics of The Ghana Health Service) stipulates that, “All Service personnel shall respect the Rights of patients/clients, colleagues and other persons and shall safeguard patients’/client’ confidence.”

    The rights of patient to healthcare as promoted under the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) of the 1992 Constitution, which among others requires the state to ensure the realization of the right to good healthcare for people living in Ghana, is been sacrificed illegal for the undue private interest and as against the code of ethics for which the nurses were engaged to work for the country. 

    Point one (1) of the GHS code of ethics enforce that; “All Service personnel shall be competent, dedicated, honest, client-focused and operate within the law of the land.”

    The right to health is a fundamental part of our human rights and of our understanding of a life in dignity. The right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and to give the right its full meaning, contradicts the reasons for which the nurses are trading and are subjecting Ghanaians who seek healthcare at the Manhyia Municipal hospital lives to pain, artificially caused inaccessibility to healthcare.

    The Preamble of the Code of Ethics for the Ghana Health Service (GHS) defines the general; moral principles and rules of behavior for all service personnel in the Ghana Health Service. The Code also enforce that, “The Service shall be manned by persons of integrity, trained to a high standard to deliver a comprehensive equitable service for the benefit of patients/clients and society as a whole.”

    But, the nurses here are trading the interest of patients for their reprieve. 

    It is for these reasons that, I call on the Ghana Health Service to enforce the administrative law governing its engagement terms and conditions with the nurses to ensure that the nurses return to post immediately. Failure on the part of the Ghana Health Service will push me to further petition the Supreme Court against their incompetence and neglect of their duty. 

    Also, the Ghana Health Service must outline and implement punitive actions against any of the workers at the Manhyia Municipal hospital who participated in the strike actions within two weeks starting from the date of petition. 

    The citizens deserve best form of services as part of their social contract for which they their taxes and same used to train and pay the nurses and other public and civil servants. 

    Look forward to your swift response to this petition for the utmost interest of national order, peace and security. Thank you. 

    —+Signed+—

    Adnan Adams Mohammed

    adamsadnan19@gmail.com

    +233244653664

    Cc:

    The Minister

    Ministry of Health

    Accra 

    Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifes Association secretariat 

    Accra

    The Chairman 

    National Security Council

    Accra

  • Open Letter To Ghana Nurses

    Open Letter To Ghana Nurses

    Dear GRNMA Executives and Members,

    I am highly disappointed and shocked at how you have denigrated and disgraced the noble nursing profession to the extend that, your members are seen as ‘nuisance’.

    Your (Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifes Association- GRNMA) reaction and unnecessary threats to the public with regards to the ‘mishappens’ at Manhyia hospital shows you are indeed shameless and selfish leaders and individual disguised under the uniform of a noble profession. Most of you do not deserve to be in that uniform.

    I am shocked at how national security setup and the public are quiet and have been tolerating your unnecessary regular threats of withdrawal of national essential service.

    It is indeed true and a fact that, most nurses failed their exams, but were able to find their way to nursing school through nepotism, favouritism, bribes payment and sex for favor. So such individual comes with moral decadence. You see them as a symbol of disrespect, arrogance, empty pride, and lack of shame.

    Where on earth or in which profession can national executives be quick to issue threats of strike to affect public security and order, just because of a matter in which no official investigation has been done to ascertain the real cause and effect of an incident.

    So should the innocent citizens suffer and die at the health facilities which you were trained with the ‘kobi and momoni’ sellers taxes?

    Where are your senses dear executives? Did you think deep about the public security and order before issuing out such threats?

    My wife is a staff nurse, if any nurse attempt any strike action as we have read from some news portal, I will sue the executives and all those nurses participating in the strike.

    Have you been able to address the numerous public genuine claims, complaints and agitations against misconduct, unprofessional and negligence of your members which have caused a number of preventable death and pains to patients?

    You are not concerned about the professional conduct and improvement of your services, but you demand public respect?

    How do you discipline some members of the noble profession whom we see in numerous ‘sexleak tapes, nude pictures, sexy twerks, recordings of nasty talkings’ ?

    Have you addressed how badly, unprofessional and with much disrespect some of your members treat patients at the hospitals and clinics?

    My wife, who is a nurse, despite her noblest and service with humility at her post, suffered the worst of her life at the Mother And Child Hospital at Kasoa when she was pregnant. Two nurses at that very moment at the time suffered same in the hands of nurses.

    The doctors present were somehow respectful and humble to the patients.

    Yes, it is a fact that, at the hospitals and clinics today, the physician assistant and doctors are even more humble and respectful to patients despite their qualifications more than the certificate and diploma nurses some of whom did not even pass their WASSCE exams.

    Dear nurses, haven’t you observed that, the respect the public used to have for nurses is no more?

    Have the socalled executives and the NMC sat on table to think about why it is so and how to sanitize the profession?

    The indiscipline in the nursing profession is too much. Address that first before you demand public respect.

    Stop issuing ‘unnecessary and useless threats’ trying to redeem the destroyed image of the profession.

    Check in the other countries how the nurses work and behave there.

    I wish to see changes in your conduct and relation with patients at the health facilities soon, then some of us can start fighting for you.

    You will be sued for any unnecessary threats of strike, negligence and misconduct henceforth.

    Thank you for your attention and the sense of change you have just assured yourselves.

    Signed

    Adnan Adams

    01/12/2022

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