Alex Opoku-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), has been relocated to the Head Office in Accra to operate under direct supervision.
This is in response to the recommendations of an investigation commission charged with investigating Mr. Opoku-Mensah, who verbally abused a nurse at the Manhyia Government Hospital.
He was already suspended awaiting the outcome of the inquiry, but his ban has been extended for two months.
According to a new instruction included in a letter dated December 23, 2022, Mr. Opoku-Mensah will report to the Secretariat's Head Office following the suspension.
This suggests that he will not be returning to the role anytime soon.
He has also been given seven days to offer a formal apology to the National Service Scheme for putting the institution's reputation into contempt.
The order is effective immediately.
Mr. Opoku-Mensah was captured on video denigrating a nurse who is said to have had an argument with his daughter, a doctor at the Manhyia hospital.
He then apologized after his actions were heavily denounced on social media by the majority of Ghanaians.
Mr. Opoku-Mensah apologized on his Facebook page, saying, "I do regret for any error and promise everybody, there shall be no repeat of such."
"I realize the public's dissatisfaction and respect the trouble my action has caused the Nursing Fraternity and Manhyia Hospital," the statement added.
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has also vowed to go on strike if the director is not fired within 72 hours.
Philemon Adu Brempong, the Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, said they had given the government a 72-hour deadline to fire the appointee or face industrial action.
Mr. Adu Brempong stated that the NSS Regional Director is unfit for the post of Director he occupies in the Public Service.