Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric hospital have embarked on an industrial action following the hazardous conditions under which they work.
Two weeks before embarking on the action, the nurses served authorities with a notice detailing their intended action which was begun with full force on Monday, October 31, 2016.
In an interview with one of the aggrieved nurses Jamilatu Hussen on Peace fm, she noted that their strike action has nothing to do with unpaid salaries but rather, the poor prevailing conditions under which trained metal health nurses work.
According to her, nurses at the Accra Psychiatric hospital were inadequately supplied with drugs for mentally deranged patients, logistics and hospital consumables.
The poor condition, according to her, had made their job uncomfortable to an extent that they “often do not have gloves to wear to clean the excreta of the patients.”
“We are professional nurses with degrees and diplomas but we do not have basic items like gloves and bedspread to cater for the patients. Such impediment has put our lives at risk”.
As trained nurses expected to keep records of patents on daily basis, Jamilatu Hussen claims they are not even supplied with pens and notebooks to keep and write situational reports.
“We can write a request that we need 5 pens for the month but it comes as luck to be given just one. All they tell us is that they don’t have enough pens and incase one is fortunate to get two pens, then it means other wards wouldn’t get pens to write with”, she said.
Dealing with patients with psychological issues involve keeping the environment clean but from the accounts of Jamilatu, both nurses and patients at the Accra Psychiatric hospital live in an untidy environment where acquiring detergents to sanitize the place is hard to come by.
“Even plasters to dress sores with, we don’t have…We don’t have medicines for our patients and we need to sanitize our environment but we don’t have detergents”, she said.
The rot at the home has reached a level where nurses have to personally contribute monies in the form of “susu” according to Jamilatu before they can run the home and when “we told our head about the situation, she told us government doesn’t have money to cater for us”.
In a related development, President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that he is unaware of the strike action being embarked on by the nurses of the Accra Psychiatric hospital.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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arhhhh wat a country we have,
We need to build those structures in order to collect our 10% or more from the contractors and also inflate cost to make millions of cash for our party and self
Somebody help me to understand these things Why do we build large and numerous schools, yet the inputs and supplies needed to run the schools are not provided (poor treatment of teacher training students. We build large hospitals and polyclinics, yet the nurses and supplies needed to run efficient services is not available. Are we only interested in seeing infrastructure development with poor and inadequate services. Please reason up
go burn the sea. JM is the best leader for Ghana not some dwarf monkey. JM toaso.
Misplaced and displaced priorities
Name: NDC IS EVIL AND SATANIC Mr President,are you the one to control the will of God?. don't try this time around. majority of Ghanaians are awake now. we know of your grand scheme with Afari Gyan and Amadu Sule in 2012. we saw you in numerous campaign grounds lifting up your hands as if God ordained you to be the president of Ghana. you have started repeating the same words. Ghana will burn if you try it this time around. you are soooo evil minded. rigging elections has always been your Plan. SHAME
Mahama makes me sick. The government is owing so many institutions and yet they spend big money on cars, flags, cars and billboards on every street. He is the most heartless leader in Ghana's history. NDC don't give a damn for anybody except themselves. Disgusting ***barred word***.
This is the reason why we see Akuffo Addo as president instead of JM! His not acting as such. Joking on a platform whiles his government can't even provide basic amenities for hospitals. What a shame:..
When you were dissipating our monies on printing T-Shirts, how can you know. Don't repeat that slogan of yours that God appointed you. Will God write 27zero? Nsemfoo ara kwa.
president mahama u can ***barred word*** ndc people everyday but not every Ghanaian,how can u lie to to ur self and Ghanaians that u don't know that psychatric nurses are on strike, may God reward for saying that.Ghanaians are in serious hardship so wake up if u are sleeping,don't think everyone who oppose u belongs to npp,Ghanaians are really suffering so do something now and stop the rhetorics.