Deputy National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande believes the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is behind the strike action by the Ghana Registered Nurses’ and Midwives’ Association (GRNMA).
According to him, for eight years, the New Patriotic Party stayed in power, but the Nurses did not strike or call for their condition of service to be implemented.
He is of the view that the NPP is behind the association’s nonchalant posture in the 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.
