{"id":324279,"date":"2024-06-19T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=324279"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:13:56","slug":"surgeries-suspended-at-manhyia-hospital-over-melpwus-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/general\/surgeries-suspended-at-manhyia-hospital-over-melpwus-strike\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeries suspended at Manhyia Hospital over MELPWU\u2019s strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Management at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghana.gov.gh\/mdas\/346c9137da\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhyia Government Hospital <\/a>has suspended planned surgeries, and the facility\u2019s theatre has also been shut down, following the strike by the Medical Laboratory Professional Workers\u2019 Union (MELPWU). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources at the facility have indicated, that only emergency surgery cases will be attended to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, patients visiting the hospital for lab services have been left stranded, as red bands and notices of the strike have been placed at the hospital\u2019s laboratories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frustrated and worried about the implications of this development on their health, patients are appealing for swift intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/health\/\">More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management at the Manhyia Government Hospital has suspended planned surgeries, and the facility\u2019s theatre has also been shut down, following the strike by the Medical Laboratory Professional Workers\u2019 Union (MELPWU). Sources at the facility have indicated, that only emergency surgery cases will be attended to. Meanwhile, patients visiting the hospital for lab services have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":324280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,27,25],"tags":[13281],"class_list":["post-324279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-health","category-news","tag-manhyia-hospital"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manhyia-hospital-new-600x375-1.jpg?fit=600%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324282,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324279\/revisions\/324282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}