GRNMA Demands Immediate Reinstatement of Dr. Paa Kwesi Aidoo by June 7
By Lawrence Odoom
Tension is escalating at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, GRNMA, has issued a stern ultimatum saying unless the suspension of Chief Executive Officer Dr. Paa Kwesi Aidoo is nullified, nurses and midwives will join the ongoing doctors’ strike at 8:00am on June 7, 2026.
In a press release dated June 6, the GRNMA leadership at KATH described the Minister of Health’s two-week suspension directive as “unnecessary” and counterproductive to resolving the hospital’s systemic challenges.
According to the association, punitive administrative action does little to address the “enormous pressure, infrastructural challenges, congestion, inadequate logistics, and resource constraints confronting the hospital on a daily basis.”
The GRNMA is unequivocal in its demand for the CEO’s immediate reinstatement.
“We therefore call immediate withdrawal of the suspension of the CEO of KATH and empowering him to manage the hospital to save lives and preserve the physical and mental health of health professionals working in the hospital especially those at the emergency department,” they asserted.
The association further urged the Ministry of Health to accelerate action on long-delayed infrastructure projects designed to decongest KATH. They also called for urgent retooling, infrastructural expansion, and commensurate resource allocation to restore the facility’s status as a true Centre of Excellence.
“The Ministry of Health must expedite the operationalization of the long-awaited health facilities intended to decongest and ease the burden on KATH,” the statement read.
“In view of this, we hope that the Board of KATH will take the necessary steps to ensure peace and harmony in the hospital and avert any wide scale industrial action that will gravely affect the delivery of health services in the hospital,” they urged.
Strike Countdown Begins
With the June 7 deadline looming, the GRNMA warned that industrial action would commence without delay if the Minister’s directive remains unchanged.
“Effective 8:00am 7th June 2026 Nurses and Midwives at KATH will join the strike if the directive from the Honourable Minister for Health is not reversed.”
The unfolding standoff underscores a deeper crisis in Ghana’s tertiary healthcare system, where frontline workers say leadership stability and resource investment, not sanctions, are the prescriptions needed to safeguard patient care and staff welfare.