The Ministry of Health has announced that recommendations from the committee set up to investigate the recent assault at Ridge Hospital in Accra will be extended to health facilities across the country.

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Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Tony Goodman, said that although the six-member committee’s findings were directed at Ridge Hospital, the measures would be implemented in other facilities across the country.

He explained that the recommendations were carefully designed to strengthen health service delivery and improve safety, adding that the ministry would not hesitate to apply them broadly to ensure similar incidents do not occur elsewhere.

"I spoke to the minister, who said he put a team in place to quickly do this implementation as part of the policy we are introducing, which is to improve upon the systems we have, so this is not only geared towards the Ridge Hospital but to other hospitals across the country."

"When you look at the recommendation, we mentioned that this should look at other facilities; the recommendations, even though it is for Ridge, these things are happening in other hospitals.... so it is a recommendation the minister has taken seriously," he added.

The decision follows a recent violent attack at Ridge Hospital, which raised serious concerns about security, staff welfare and access to healthcare services at state health institutions.

Meanwhile, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Jefferson Asare, has challenged aspects of the ministerial committee’s findings on the alleged assault of a nurse at the Ridge Hospital, insisting that the official medical diagnosis recorded was polycontusion.

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