<strong id="lead" class="hyphenate lead">Nurses at the Accidents and Emergency Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hosptial in Ghana have announced that they will not work until all of them are tested for coronavirus.
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<p class="hyphenate ">According to them, their lives and that of their families have been put at risk following reports that a patient who had been admitted at the department tested positive for Covid-19.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">The Coalition of Nurses at the Accident and Emergency Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital announced this in a press release issued on Friday, April 3, 2020.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">The statement said, <em>“It is sad to inform our heads of department that it has created fear and panic among we the nurses who are always close to the patients."</em></p>
Adding that <em>“We write with deep pain and regret as such information has been kept from us and consequently putting us at risk. As we write this letter, a substantial number of nurses at the centre are not in their right state of mind.”</em>

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<p class="hyphenate ">The nurses are also asking for the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to be provided to aid their work.</p>
<p class="hyphenate "><em>“This will help us deal with all forms of psychological and emotional stress, so we can work with sound minds and give our patients the best of care,” </em>the statement noted.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">Meanwhile, doctors at the same department, earalier, threatened to withdraw their services over claims of poor preparedness to fight the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">The doctors wrote to their heads in a memo complaining that it was dangerous for a sideward at the department to be used as a coronavirus isolation centre while they lack Personal Protective Equipment.</p>
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<p class="hyphenate ">COALITION OF NURSES AT ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY CENTER, KORLE-BU TEACHING HOSPITAL</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">We write in line to the content of a letter circulating about a patient who tested positive to COVID-19 at the Accident and Emergency Center.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">It is sad to inform our heads of department that it has created fear and panic among we the nurses who are always close to the patients.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">We write with deep pain and regret as such information has been kept from us and consequently putting us at risk.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">As we write this letter, a substantial number of nurses at the center are not in their right state of mind.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">We are emotionally and psychologically stressed and saddened with fear and panic.</p>
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<p class="hyphenate ">Our head of department informed us of a planned mass testing for staffs but we are yet to be informed of a date for the exercise.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">Our official letter for this action is ready and will be submitted to the appropriate offices on Monday, April 6, 2020.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">We, therefore, come together as aggrieved nurses of this center that we are not working until everyone in the department is tested and results submitted and sorted out.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">Also, all the appropriate PPEs should be provided to aid us work effectively and efficiently without putting ourselves and patients at risk.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">This will help us deal with all forms of psychological and emotional stress, so we can work with sound minds and give our patients the best of care.</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">In conclusion, all we want to say is,</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">NO TESTING WITH SUBMITTED RESULTS, NO WORK</p>
<p class="hyphenate ">NO APPROPRIATE PPEs, NO WORK</p>