Health Ministry sacks Ankaful Hospital Director

The Ministry of Health has withdrawn the appointment of the Director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Eugene Dordoye.

The decision was arrived at after an emergency meeting today [Friday] between the Ministry and Dr. Dordoye.

The nurses and physician assistants at the facility withdrew their services earlier this week and demanded that Dr. Dordoye’s appointment be terminated, claiming that he had disrespected them on multiple occasions.

In an interview with Citi News, Public Relations Officer for the Health Ministry, Robert Cudjoe said a new director will take over next week.

“It was at a meeting that this came out. Dr. Dordorye was with us at the meeting and we all agreed that he should give way for another person to act on his behalf…As time goes on, another person will take over from him,” said Mr. Cudjoe.

Meeting called off

The Ministry of Health had earlier called off its planned meeting with nurses at the hospital aimed at resolving the impasse.

The development was due to a decision by hospital staff not to honour the invitation of the Ministry to attend the meeting.

The Public Relations Officer of the staff, Emmanuel Ofori had told Citi News earlier that “if the minister has intentions of removing him, he doesn’t need us in Accra before doing that. When we went there the other time, certain comments he passed really put us off. That is why we didn’t want to go there”

“Does the Minister need us to sign that the hospital director has been transferred or reshuffled or relieved of his post? He doesn’t need that”, Mr. Ofori said in an earlier post.

Staff get their way

The news of Dr. Dordoye’s removal will be welcomed by the staff of the hospital who had claimed that his presence at the facility posed a danger to their mental and physical health.

Among other things, they had accused him of putting them through emotional and psychological stress.

Aside from withdrawing their services at the facility, the nurses had also threatened to release the patients at the hospital if their demands were not met.

The staff are now expected to resume work after they had insisted that they would not return to the hospital until Dr. Dordoye was removed.

 

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By: Jonas Nyabor & Zoe Abu-Baidoo/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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