Psychiatric nurses threaten strike

indexNurses of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have announced they will lay down their tools on August 3, 2015.

The strike is to protest what they say is the Ministry of Health’s refusal to settle their salary arrears.

The nurses, in a statement indicated that they have been compelled to resort to the strike because of the “position” the Ministry of Health has taken concerning their concerns.

“We have taken all legitimate and diplomatic steps to resolve this matter amicably in an attempt to avert any unrest but the Ministry of Health has well demonstrated its lack of interest in our case.”

“It is worth noting, that in as much as several diplomatic attempts were opened from several fronts to resolve the challenges, the Ministry of Health remains adamant, hence our decision to lay down our tools,” the statement indicated.Their decision comes days after the some junior doctors expressed concerns over the non-payment of their salary spanning 11 months.

The doctors subsequently picketed at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to register their displeasure about the problem, before some of them started receiving payment.

Government subsequently declared its intention to settle the arrears by Wednesday but the doctors say only 14 out of the 91 have so far been paid.

This is not the first time nurses have threatened to embark on a strike over the non payment of their salaries.

They issued a similar warning in June 2014 over their none months’ salary arrears.

 

Below is the full statement issued by the Nurses

NOTICE OF STRIKE

We, the nurses of Accra Psychiatric Hospital who were employed and assumed duty on September 2013, June 2013, April 2014 and May 2014 respectively, write to notify you of our preparedness and readiness to embark on a sit-down-strike effective 3rd August, 2015 over the Ministry of Health’s refusal to settle our unpaid salary arrears. We, having the passion for our work and less appetite to resort to such actions, have been compelled to do so due to the position Ministry of Health has taken concerning our salary arrears.

We have taken all legitimate and diplomatic steps to resolve this matter amicably in an attempt to avert any unrest but the Ministry of Health has well demonstrated its lack of interest in our case. It is worth noting, that in as much as several diplomatic attempts were opened from several fronts to resolve the challenges, the Ministry of Health remains adamant, hence our decision to lay down our tools. Please be duly informed and take note.

 

Thank you.

 

 

By: Marian Efe Ansah

ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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