Deputy General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has urged the Health Minister to revoke the appointment of the leadership of the Registered Nurses and Midwives Association of Ghana.
According to him, they are heartless and do not deserve to serve the people of Ghana in the positions they occupy.
Mustapha Gbande made this known while speaking on Accra-based OKAY FM on the strike action by nurses and midwives.
He said, “They are wicked people. I will urge the health minister to revoke their appointment. How can you declare a strike and travel out of the country like that? The NPP has been in power for the past eight years and has not implemented your condition of service. They left, and after a few months, you have the audacity to call for strike action.”
“You have a right, but you have the responsibility to be at the hospital. We should sack them and get a leadership that is serious. So it is only under serious and compelling reasons that you can go on strike. They are abroad and engaging in a Zoom call because they have been influenced by the NPP,” he remarked.
In Ghana, nurses and midwives are on strike to drum home the need for the government to implement their conditions of service.
The strike is in the second week and has had an impact on health care delivery in the country as patients continue to suffer.
There have been several calls on the nurses and midwives to come back to work, but all efforts have proven futile, as the leadership of the association is not taking any answer but the implementation of their condition of service.
