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  • GRNMA leadership heads down

    GRNMA leadership heads down

    The leadership of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has issued an unqualified apology to the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, following recent media attacks directed at him.

    The apology follows the August 17, 2025, incident at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital’s Emergency Department (GARH), where some individuals who sought medical care allegedly assaulted nurses and hospital staff on duty. The incident sparked widespread public outcry after video footage of the confrontation went viral.

    During a meeting with the Minister on Wednesday, September 3, the GRNMA apologised for how the aftermath of the incident was handled and engaged in discussions on strengthening collaboration between nurses and the government.

    Mr. Akandoh accepted the apology and encouraged the Association to prioritise dialogue and constructive engagement with the government.

    He reaffirmed his commitment to fostering strong partnerships with healthcare professionals to improve service delivery nationwide.

    Highlighting the government’s achievements, the Minister pointed to the integration of 13,500 nurses onto the government payroll, the establishment of the Ghana Medical Training Fund (GMTF), and the retooling of various health facilities.

    He also cited the settlement of arrears on nursing training allowances and National Health Insurance claims, as well as government’s decision to absorb half of admission fees for nursing training institutions.

    The Minister further pledged to ensure the full implementation of the collective bargaining agreement to improve conditions of service for nurses, while supporting ongoing reforms in the health sector in line with Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

    Mr. Akandoh appealed to stakeholders and the public to remain calm, assuring that government remains committed to resolving challenges in the sector.

    The GRNMA leadership also raised several concerns affecting healthcare professionals and called for urgent government attention to improve service delivery.

    Those present at the meeting included former President Alice Darkoa Asare-Allotey, immediate past President Dr. Krobea Asante, current President Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, and General Secretary Dr. David Tenkorang-Twum.

    Meanwhile, video evidence submitted to the Ridge Assault Investigative Committee showed a verbal altercation between Mr. Ralph St. Williams, some riders, and hospital staff.

    However, no video or eyewitness account confirmed a physical attack. The alleged victim, Ms. Rejoice Tsotso Bortei, a rotation nurse, reported pain in her left hand the following day.

    Medical records confirmed she suffered no fractures or dislocations and was treated with pain relief and psychological support.

  • 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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