Stop your lawless acts – Government warns Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital nurses

The Ministry of Health has warned agitating nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital to desist from their ‘lawless acts’ over their demands for the Medical Director of the Hospital to be removed.

They’ve petitioned the Health Minister to sack Dr Eugene Dordoye for mismanaging the health facility.

The angry nurses claim they’ve been prevented from demonstrating at the hospital to register their displeasure over the leadership style of their director.

They accuse him of intimidation, harassment and victimization among others.

The Nurses also accuse Dr Dordoye of attacking them verbally and violating their rights. In one instance, they allege that their boss punished a nurse who was absent because she had been given an excuse duty after suffering an asthma attack.

They’ve threatened to release the patients onto the streets and lock up the office of the Medical Director if government declines their request.

But the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health, Robert Cudjoe has urged the nurses to stop acting lawlessly as authorities work to have the issues resolved.

“There’s an issue and as an institution you’ve petitioned your superior just barely a month and you think they’ve delayed. That’s not fair, because when an issue comes up you don’t just get up and take a decision, you need to form a committee, the committee has to be given terms of reference and they have to go into the matter and also meet to two sides for discussion and take a concrete decision as to what exactly to be done. But if you think you don’t want the man to be there again so authorities should just get up and take a decision, it doesn’t work that way. When we do things in this manner then we become a lawless nation. They have to be patient a little bit, if this agitations continue, there’s one here there’s one there all over Ghana, the nation will crumble on our heads.”

Robert Cudjoe, however disclosed that there’ll be a meeting this week to deliberate on the matter and hopefully by the close of the week a concrete decision will be taken.