A private citizen, Adnan Adams Mohammed, has petitioned the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to punish the nurses who participated in the illegal strike on Friday, December 2, 2022, at the Manhyia Municipal hospital in accordance to its administrative laws and powers.
Mr Mohammed indicated that, failure on the part of the GHS to punish the illegally striking nurses, he will forced to petition the Supreme Court to force the GHS to apply it powers.
Below is the full petition:
From:
Hse No. KZ424/3, Kasoa Zongo
02/12/2022
To:
The Director General
Ghana Health Service
Accra
Dear Sir/Madam,
PETITION CALLING ON GHANA HEALTH SERVICE TO ENFORCE ITS ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS TO CALL ILLEGALLY STRIKING NURSES AT MANHYIA HOSPITAL BACK TO WORK AND TAKE PUNITIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE NURSES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
In the interest of public order, peace and security, as a concern law abiding citizen of the Republic of Ghana, who upholds all legal frameworks of the land, I write to petition the Ghana Health Service to as a matter of urgency enforce its administrative laws to call the illegally striking nurses at the Manhyia Municipal hospital to return to post and punish same for breach of their contract.
Relative to the administrative legal framework for the engagement of the nurses under the Ghana Health Service supervision and management, the nurses have no locus to put the lives of innocent citizens in peril to seek for their private interest or make demands for which they have no any legal powers of determination.
In the matter where they ‘allege’ that, a colleague staff nurse has been abused by another public servant does not, in any way, guarantee their justification to sacrifice sick Ghanaians live to death and pains against their Conditions of Service as captured under the Code of Ethics of The Ghana Health Service.
Point three (3) of the Ghana Health Service Conditions of Service (Code of Ethics of The Ghana Health Service) stipulates that, “All Service personnel shall respect the Rights of patients/clients, colleagues and other persons and shall safeguard patients’/client’ confidence.”
The rights of patient to healthcare as promoted under the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) of the 1992 Constitution, which among others requires the state to ensure the realization of the right to good healthcare for people living in Ghana, is been sacrificed illegal for the undue private interest and as against the code of ethics for which the nurses were engaged to work for the country.
Point one (1) of the GHS code of ethics enforce that; “All Service personnel shall be competent, dedicated, honest, client-focused and operate within the law of the land.”
The right to health is a fundamental part of our human rights and of our understanding of a life in dignity. The right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and to give the right its full meaning, contradicts the reasons for which the nurses are trading and are subjecting Ghanaians who seek healthcare at the Manhyia Municipal hospital lives to pain, artificially caused inaccessibility to healthcare.
The Preamble of the Code of Ethics for the Ghana Health Service (GHS) defines the general; moral principles and rules of behavior for all service personnel in the Ghana Health Service. The Code also enforce that, “The Service shall be manned by persons of integrity, trained to a high standard to deliver a comprehensive equitable service for the benefit of patients/clients and society as a whole.”
But, the nurses here are trading the interest of patients for their reprieve.
It is for these reasons that, I call on the Ghana Health Service to enforce the administrative law governing its engagement terms and conditions with the nurses to ensure that the nurses return to post immediately. Failure on the part of the Ghana Health Service will push me to further petition the Supreme Court against their incompetence and neglect of their duty.
Also, the Ghana Health Service must outline and implement punitive actions against any of the workers at the Manhyia Municipal hospital who participated in the strike actions within two weeks starting from the date of petition.
The citizens deserve best form of services as part of their social contract for which they their taxes and same used to train and pay the nurses and other public and civil servants.
Look forward to your swift response to this petition for the utmost interest of national order, peace and security. Thank you.
—+Signed+—
Adnan Adams Mohammed
+233244653664
Cc:
The Minister
Ministry of Health
Accra
Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifes Association secretariat
Accra
The Chairman
National Security Council
Accra
