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General news for Thursday, September 24, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-09-24
The GRNMA has suspended its strike
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has suspended its series of organized strikes over poor conditions of service.
The boycott of service by nurses, midwives and other service providers began on Monday, September 21, 2020.
Dozens of patients were abandoned at various government health centers across the country due to the absence of health personnel.
However, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations has asked the striking nurses and midwives to immediately suspend the strike and use it to continue negotiations.
Although the GRNMA’s concerns have yet to be addressed, its leadership has called the three-day strike.
GhanaWeb visited Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH), popularly known as Ridge Hospital, to find out how healthcare delivery is taking shape after industrial action was suspended.
Speaking to GhanaWeb, GARH director of nursing and midwifery, Rebecca Agyare Asante said that striking nurses have resumed their duties in service positions.
“So far, I have visited all areas within the facility. Both prenatal, midwifery, obstetric and gynecological, pediatric emergency, I mean everywhere. Nurses and midwives have resumed their duties and performance with diligence, ”she said.
A relative of a patient who spoke to GhanaWeb said: “I was here yesterday. The nurses were on strike, so the doctors took on the role of the nurses. They gave us the medications and told us how to administer them.
Today things are different. The nurses have returned and are working. Actually it is my brother who is sick and I am the one who takes care of him ”.
Other patients also expressed their enthusiasm that the healthcare workers were fulfilling their usual duties.
We also paid a visit to the Achimota Hospital in Accra to check if patients were being treated after the strike was called off.
Patients expressed relief at the suspension of the industrial strike by the Ghana Association of Registered Nurses and Midwives.
The National Labor Commission (NLC) has given the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) until October 28, 2020 to renegotiate and develop a mutually beneficial document.
Below is the video report
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