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Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives have been following with keen interest the simmering issues in Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital regarding the petition by the Psychiatric Nurses Group to the honourable minster of health to remove the hospital Director of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the person of Dr Eugene Dordoye for his continuous abuse and disregard for nurses and staff human rights, conflict of interest, mismanagement of hospital resources among others. Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives did independent investigations at the hospital to have a firm grip of the issues and to confirm the content of the petition. We gathered that countless attempts by the leaders of the Psychiatric Nurses Group through management to have the issues resolved yielded no results as the Director paid no heed to such windows. Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives is aware that the Mental Health Authority set up a five member Facts Finding Committee to investigate the issues in th...

   This is a very crucial moment for the staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, especially the nursing staff. The ambience in this hall alone conveys a strong message beyond reasonable doubt that all is not well here in Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital. The Psychiatric Nurses’ Group is a specialized group of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association; purposed to advance the interest and protect the welfare of psychiatric nurses, midwives and other category of nurses working within the entire spectrum of mental health facilities across the country. In our quest to liberate the staff from oppressor’ rule and promote mental health care in Ghana. It is important to briefly recount the genesis of this near-industrial uproar that is about to hit Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital. We fear it may swipe and mar the good name that Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital has earned over the years and its vision to become the center of excellence in mental healthcare in the sub region. It is...