One of the best ways to ensure maximum productivity is industrial peace. Labor throughout the world depends largely on industrial peace to ensure that all and sundry gets satisfaction at work places. But nurses in the Upper West Region are in dire need of industrial peace to be able them to give care and support to patients who patronize the regional hospital. What is the cause of this mishap one may ask?
The hospital administrator, Mr. Kojo Galle has turned the hospital into a terror camp for senior nurses who have worked more than three quarters of their age as nurses. He has introduced draconian laws which no human being can contain in the running of the hospital.
Just last month, Roger Galle attacked and mercilessly beat up a fifty five year old nurse who as at the time writing this piece is still traumatized and is under going treatment. What was the crime of the nurse? She was allegedly accused of allowing a relative of patient into the hospital. He broke the spectacles of the elderly nurse, but for the timely intervention of the medical director, Amiah Adoko, Roger Galle would been called a murderer. But the matter is being swept under the carpet. Roger.
Galle has resurfaced, saying that there is nobody within the fold of the Ghana Health Service who do anything to him, be it transfer or outright dismissal. He went on air on a local FM station to even dare the director general of Ghana Health to attempt to remove him and see what will happen.Roger Galle who believes in traditional African ‘powers’ and a chief patron of ‘juju’ says that nobody can touch him.
Roger Galle has put the names of some people on the pay roll of the Ghana Health Service who are his farm laborers and this has become a very contentious issue in the running of the hospital. This is a public knowledge. Sources have it that he once attempted to attack the current regional director of GHS Dr. Alexis for attempting to correct him. Nurses at the Wa Regional hospital are under constant fear as the physical presences of the hospital administer is a major disincentive for any meaningful work. The hospital administrator demands that whoever greets him must be in a standing ovation otherwise you will forget it.Roger onetime assisted a gate man to attack a patient, in the process, she nearly lost one eye, and he still had the guts to go on air to defend that indefensible action.
Under his administration and control hospital property are mysteriously getting missing in the hospital, colleague workers who demand explanation are verbally attacked. Not long a go he was embroiled in a scandal involving the regional hospital and some service providers under the national health insurance scheme. After the matter died down, the hospital administrator acquired a very brand new saloon car for his wife and tongues are wagging and he is putting an insouciant life towards the matter. His latest claim now is that NHIS in the region is owing the hospital up to the tune of seventeen million Ghana cedis which translates into seventeen billion old Ghana cedis, but in reality the hospital rather owes the NHIS in the region such a gargantuan sum of money, which the administrator and others have used to acquire saloon vehicles for their wives.
As part of his craze for power, Mr. Roger Galle was on record to have locked up a night nurse car in a garage meant for nurses, for no apparent reason and went ahead to hold him by the collar of his shirt for daring to ask him why. He can at anytime order nurses on duty to be on their feet, which for him is doing their work. He has also usurped the powers of deputy director of nursing in the hospital {DDNS} and he is busy making her very irrelevant to the hospital.
We the people of the region want to write and formally inform the Director General of Ghana Health Serviced. Sori, himself a native of the region to listen to the plea of the workers, particularly elderly nurses in the regional hospital so that we can serve our people and let the region grow for the benefit of all. If nothing is done, that means the national leadership of the Ghana Health Service are condoning and conniving to allow one simple person who should have been allowing industrial peace to prevail, but rather terrorizing innocent workers. If nothing is done, we can assure you that, our next move will be indeterminate, but you will get to know too late that things are out of hand and control.
A WORD TO THE WISE IS IN …………………………………..?
By Dakurah Porideme Justine
Email- justine puorideme77@gmail.com
Nanvili
Upper West Region
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