In keeping to the mandate of oversight, the Parliamentary joint Committee on Health and Lands and Forestry has visited the Pantang Hospital. The visit follows recent agitation of the staff over the encroachment of developers on lands belonging to the Hospital. At the time of the visit, some encroachers were seen busily building. This prompted … Read more
At the Flagstaff House [the seat of government], in the Greater Accra region, the President invited journalists to come listen to him tell Ghanaians what he has achieved so far after six months in office. On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at exactly 12:30pm, the President’s guests were seated; so was the larger populace, outside the … Read more
Parliament’s Select Committees on Health and Lands and Forestry have jointly ordered all private developers on Pantang Psychiatric Hospital lands to stop work and produce all necessary documents for further engagement. A visit by members of the joint committee on Health as well as Lands and Forestry on Tuesday was a follow-up to the recent … Read more
In the maze of Asante Kotoko running their bus into a horrible ditch, the NDC and NPP haggling over 17.5% or 3% flat VAT rate, ‘Koforidua Legon’ launching Ghana’s Satellite One, Unemployed Private Nurses threatening to picket, Pantang Hospital staff going on strike, Inusah Fuseini’s bugging of the Lands Ministry office and Adwoa Safo’s Senior … Read more
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region yesterday embarked on a demonstration to demand the occupied portions of lands by encroachers belonging to the hospital. After years of unfettered encroachment on lands belonging to the Psychiatric Hospital, the nurses resolved that “enough is … Read more
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called off their strike following an intervention by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. They had earlier resolved not to return to work until government addressed the total take over of the frontage of the hospital by private developers. Speaking to the press , the Minister of … Read more
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital, Accra yesterday were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as they loitered the premises of the hospital, hoping to be attended to. The staff of the hospital are on strike to demand that government stops private developers … Read more
Dozens of patients who reported at the Pantang Hospital on Monday, July 10, were turned away as the staff of the facility embarked on a sit-down strike. Some of the patients were left helpless as they loitered the premises of the hospital, hoping to be attended to. The staff of the are on strike to demand … Read more
Some concerned workers of the Pantang Hospital together with residents in the area, have issued a two-week ultimatum to government, to halt encroachment on the hospital’s land or they will hit the streets. The members of the group, who accused various institutions including the La-Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly of neglect, described the takeover of the hospital’s land … Read more
Some concerned workers of the Pantang Hospital together with residents in the area have issued a two-week ultimatum to government, to halt the encroachment of the hospital’s land or they will hit the streets. The members of the group, who accused various institutions including the La-Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly of neglect, described the takeover of the hospital’s … Read more
Dr Akwasi Osei, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Mental Health Authority (GHA) has expressed worry over the poor attention given to mental health care in the country and called for stakeholders’ intervention. Dr Osei said most mental health facilities were in poor state making the delivery of services very difficult for both patients and … Read more
The Ward Three of the Pantang Hospital, which has been renovated at a cost GHȼ95,000.00, was on Friday opened for use to improve on the operations of the facility. Dr. Micheal Brennan, a Scottish-Irish Philanthropist, assisted the Pantang Hospital with the refurbishment of the ward which was in a deplorable state. Other facilities that were … Read more
President John Mahama has assured that the current impasse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital will be resolved within the shortest possible time. This President’s comment comes after the Mental Health Authority on Monday ordered management of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to discharge more than 300 patients on admission at the facility. Nurses at the hospital … Read more
By Fadi Dabbousi Fiifi Kwertey, the loud mouthed charlatan of the NDC propaganda team seems to be unrepentant in his zeal to expose his baboonish mannerisms that have taken on a more intense dimension of hatred towards mighty and elderly statesmen in our country. He seems to belong to the group of people whom the … Read more
The dire situation of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has deteriorated to the point where the facility does not even have access to basic items such as A-4 sheets to take down minor but critical information. A member of the Hospital’s Public Relations Unit, Edwina Ankomah, lamented on Eyewitness News that, the hospital is in dire … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has assured nurses and teacher trainees it will restore their scrapped allowances 3 months after it has been elected into office. According to the Vice Presidential nominee of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the NPP will budget for the full payment of allowances for all students in the various Nursing … Read more