{"id":199929,"date":"2025-06-11T01:53:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nurses-and-midwives-strike-brings-healthcare-to-standstill-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:53:50","slug":"ghana-nurses-and-midwives-strike-brings-healthcare-to-standstill-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nurses-and-midwives-strike-brings-healthcare-to-standstill-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Nurses&#8217; and Midwives&#8217; Strike Brings Healthcare to Standstill in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cape Town \u2014 Director-General of Ghana Health Services, Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, called on the country&#8217;s Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) to reconsider their ongoing strike, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=645356225187398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CitiFM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Describing the strike action as leading to &#8220;chaotic scenes&#8221;, MyJoyOnline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/nurses-strike-escalates-disrupting-healthcare-services-nationwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that the complete withdrawal of services left &#8220;patients stranded, clinics overcrowded, and doctors overwhelmed despite a court injunction secured by the National Labour Commission (NLC) against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 Director-General of Ghana Health Services, Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, called on the country&#8217;s Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) to reconsider their ongoing strike, reports CitiFM. Describing the strike action as leading to &#8220;chaotic scenes&#8221;, MyJoyOnline reports that the complete withdrawal of services left &#8220;patients stranded, clinics overcrowded, and doctors overwhelmed despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670567:038ab413db6acacb08104d740c12f99a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6561,4508,4509,12370,8823,257,9468,254,25048,2080],"class_list":["post-199929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brings","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-healthcare","tag-midwives","tag-news","tag-nurses","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standstill","tag-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670567:038ab413db6acacb08104d740c12f99a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}