The National Service Scheme (NSS) management has suspended Alex Opoku-Mensah, the Ashanti regional director, for two months without pay following an altercation with a nurse at the Manhyia Government Hospital in late November 2022.
Opoku-Mensah also known as Omens was captured in a video involved in a misunderstanding between a female nurse on duty and a doctor identified as his daughter.
When the video went viral, he was suspended to allow for an internal investigation.
According to a letter dated December 23, 2022 and addressed to Opoku-Mensah, the committee of inquiry recommended the two-month suspension without pay.
“After the suspension, you are to report to the head office to work under supervision,” the executive director of the NSS Osei Assibey Antwi said in the letter.
“Within seven days upon receipt of this notice, you are also to issue an official apology to the National Service Scheme for bringing the name of the scheme into disrepute,” the letter added.
Over 360 nurses and midwives at Manhyia District Hospital went on strike on December 2, 2022, to demand that Opoku-Mensah be fired for allegedly abusing their colleague.
After government officials intervened, the strike was called off a few days later.
