Dr Akwasi Osei
Junior nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have been picketing at the hospital premises over unpaid salaries.
The nurses have issued a one-week ultimatum to government to pay them their over eight months salary arrears owed them, failing which they would go on strike.
The nurses complained that they have been working for more than a year but have only received three months' pay.
The angry nurses disclosed that they risk their lives taking care of the mentally ill in the hospital.
According to them, they are sometimes attacked by wild patients because of the shortage of medicine to keep them calm.
As if that is not enough, the nurses pointed out that the quality of food served the patients is poor and on few occasions, the patients have had to vent their anger on them.
One of the nurses narrated how one of the patients pounced on him while serving them with gari and soup.
The Chief Psychiatrist and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, DrAkwasi Osei, said a strike would be catastrophic for the entire nation.
He explained the strike would be a possible national security issue because the patients would have nobody to take care of them and may end up on the streets.
He charged the authorities to respond quickly to the needs of the nurses.
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