The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has issued a firm ultimatum to the government and health facility managers, warning of a full nationwide shutdown of nursing and midwifery services beginning Monday, June 9, 2025, if what it describes as "threats and intimidation" do not cease immediately.
In a strongly worded statement released on Thursday, June 5, and signed by President Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo and General Secretary David Tenkorang Twum, the GRNMA accused health authorities-particularly within the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG)-of resorting to coercive measures to weaken the association's ongoing strike.
The industrial action, which started earlier in the week, is in protest over delays in implementing the 2024 Collective Agreement on conditions of service.
The Association criticised what it called unethical and unsafe practices, specifically the use of student nurses and rotation nurses to fill in for striking professionals in outpatient and emergency units. "Calling on student nurses to work unsupervised at OPDs and emergency units is not only unethical, it is unsafe," the statement said.
