The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked the Medical Director at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Eugene Dordoye to step aside.
The decision was arrived at after an emergency meeting today [Friday] between the Ministry and the medical Director.
The Ministry has also arranged for him to undertake a course to improve his human relations.
Public Relations Officer for the Health Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, has indicated that a new director will take over next week.
He said the leadership of the Nurses failed to turn up for the meeting.
Prior to today’s crunch meeting, the staff had served notice they will not attend since it is being held in Accra. They gave the Minister and his officials a condition to hold the meeting at Ankaful before they will honour it.
“We are expecting that the Minister comes to Ankaful. We are no more going to Accra. We’ve been to Accra six times. He has never stepped foot in this facility and he is the minister for health,” the spokesperson for the group Emmanuel Ofori said.
The staff of the hospital had been fighting for Dordoye’s removal for sometime now as they claimed they were suffering mental torture due to his presence at the facility.
They have threatened since last year to withdraw their services if the director is not sacked until Thursday morning when they carried out their intentions.
