Medical Heads directed to allow wearing of Hijab
Accra – The Greater Accra Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Charity Sarpong has issued a directive warning all heads of medical facilities to desist from the practice of discriminating against hijab-wearing workers.
The directive which was captured in a letter noted that some workers wearing the hijab were being asked to remove them or not allowed to work in the Ghana Health Facilities, as circulated on social media.
“Heads of BMCs are by this letter directed to instruct their respective Nurse Managers to desist from any of such practices as it contravenes government policy directive which gives approval to the wearing of the hijab,” she said.
On January 3 2018, a Journalist formerly with the Daily Graphic newspaper took to her social media handle to register her displeasure following an attempt by a secretary of a health facility in Accra to get Muslim ladies among a group of students to remove their veils before they were handed their letter.
“A Muslim nursing student has been given a letter from her school to come and do her clinical attachment in Accra. She gets to the Regional Office of the Ghana Health Service for endorsement and a letter to take to her place of attachment only for her to be told to remove her HIJAB first before she is given her letter.
She was in the company of other Muslim colleagues who removed theirs (COWARDS) but she stood her ground not to remove it and for that matter she was not given her letter.
I was informed and I made a call to the Ghana Health Service. I was directed to the Ministry of Health and they insisted there was nothing wrong with her wearing the hijab as it had been legalised for Muslim girls to wear it. So I went back with her to the regional office and shamefully, upon seeing me with her, they pretended it was only a joke.
Fast forward she was not given the letter but was asked to go to her place of attachment with the excuse that her name had already been captured on the introductory letter. She got there and her name was not part.
This morning she went back to inform them about what had happened only for them to pull out the original letter and see that her name had been cancelled on the letter supposedly by a secretary who started this whole issue. Why? because she insisted on her right as a Muslim?” the post read.
She added, “Violence is never the answer to anything but little things like this can make people angry. The constitution allows for freedom of religion and freedom of speech and frowns on the infringement of rights.
Let us learn to respect each other. It is that SIMPLE.
And to my fellow Muslims, instead of channelling your energy in violence that will not bring any result, use that to support our young ones to grow and fill up certain top positions that will not allow things like this to happen.
We should learn to level the playing field, if not worse prophecies will be pronounced and you can’t do FOKO. Educate yourselves and know that ISLAM is always for peace”.
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