Alex Opoku-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), has assaulted a nurse on duty at the Manhyia Government Hospital in Kumasi.
The attack was allegedly in reaction to the nurse’s alleged harassment of his daughter, who is completing her medical housemanship.
His daughter, who was in the same hospital, had told him about the nurse who she claimed of intimidating her at the hospital.
In an audio recording, the enraged NSS director is heard cursing the nurse and referring to the nurse who questioned her daughter as an unqualified nurse who gained admission to nursing training school through sexual favours.
In the meantime, the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has demanded that the NSS Director be fired immediately, claiming that he has no business holding any position in government.
“Public Services Commission and Government for that matter should sack the said Regional Director immediately because he is not fit for the Director position he holds in the Public Service. He had absolutely NO RIGHT to enter Manhyia District Hospital and verbally abuse and threaten the nurse in question who was on duty at the time.
“As a Director, he should have known that Manhyia District Hospital had a Medical Superintendent and a Nurse Manager under whom the nurse works and if indeed he had any complaint to make, they were the people he should have engaged and not to go to the hospital and fight the nurse on behalf of his daughter. We wish to state categorically that if the government does not relieve Mr Alex Poku Mensah of his duty as Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme within 72 hours, nurses and midwives of Manhyia Hospital will be called upon to lay down their tools, followed by the whole of Ashanti Region and then it will be escalated to the whole nation.”
