Coalition petitions minister to sack Ankaful hospital director

The Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives has petitioned the Minister of Health to immediately relieve the director of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital of his post. The petition comes in the wake of the director’s alleged continuous abuse and disregard for nurses and staff’s human rights, conflict of interest, mismanagement of hospital resources among others. According to the Coalition,  independent investigations at the hospital confirmed claims by staff of the hospital. It noted that countless attempts by the leaders of the Psychiatric Nurses Group through management to have the issues resolved yielded no results as the Director, Dr Eugene Dordoye, paid no heed. ‘‘We humbly remind the Minister for Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang, …these are mental health nurses who do not have sound minds themselves to take care of their mental patients because of the psychological stress the Director of the hospital has subjected them into as though they are animals.’’ The Concerned Nurses and Midwives feared any attempt by the Health Minister to impose the director on the nurses will lead to an unfortunate situation where the patients of the hospital will suffer in the end. ‘‘Imposing the hospital director on the nurses will also lead to low productivity,” the petition said. The coalition is therefore asking the sector minister to do the “honorable” thing  by taking the director out of the hospital for lasting peace to prevail among the staff in the hospital. By Vida Asiedu | 3news.com]]>