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The Upper East regional branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has urged managers of public health facilities in the region to target their attacks on the employer and not on their members.
The Association’s leadership in the Region said, “We are also picking up signs that some managers are beginning to send intimidating messages to nurses and midwives regarding the strike action. In this sense, we urge all managers to direct their attacks on the employer and not on our members ”.
The GRNMA demands from the Government better conditions of service and hopes that the strike will send the message and provoke an immediate response.
He described his decision to embark on the strike as “painful”, but “collectively we decided to make this difficult decision at this difficult time in our chosen profession, but united we are, divided we fall.”
The GRNMA made the appeal to the Managers in a letter signed jointly by Mr. Thomas Lambon, the Association’s Upper East Regional President and its Regional Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Panzin Tibil.
The letter referred to a press release issued on September 17 and jointly signed by the presidents of GRNMA, the Ghana Association of Medical Assistants and the Ghana Association of Registered Anesthetists.
The regional leadership stated that “The Regional Executive Council wishes to emphatically state that the region fully supports the action taken by the National Council to serve the interests of all nurses and midwives in the country.”
The letter further reminded GRNMA members that the Association was the sole spokesperson for all nurses and midwives in Ghana, and had the collective bargaining power to negotiate terms of service for its members and allied associations.
“Unfortunately, as it seems, there is a press release that supposedly speaks on behalf of a section of midwives, urging them to disassociate themselves from the dignified path traced by GRNMA to save our members.
The Regional branch of the Association urged all nurses and midwives in the Region to remain determined and comply with the directive in the press release issued jointly by the leadership of the three Associations.
When the GNA contacted Mr. Lambon about the planned strike action, he said that the regional branch of the Association had not received any formal communication from the GRNMA national leadership to suspend its planned strike action tomorrow, 21 May. September, saying “until we get any communication, we are guided by our national leaders.”
Several GRNMA allied associations, including the Nurse and Midwife Specialist Society of Ghana (NMSSG), had also declared their support for the planned strike action.
Mr. Mark Anthony Azongo, National President of the NMSSG, and Mr. Raphael Edem Kudzo Korkortsi, National Secretary, in a letter dated September 18, said: “We acknowledge the good efforts of the parent Association, GRNMA, in the He fights for the condition of the service and his contributions in promoting the training of nurses and midwives in Ghana. “
The NMSSG leadership urged its members to comply with the GRNMA directive on strike action and called on the government to re-engage the GRNMA leadership and agree to subsidies that meet the financial needs of all nurses and midwives.
Source: GNA
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