The Ministry of Health spokesperson, Tony Goodman, has denied claims that the committee investigating the assault at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, popularly known as Ridge Hospital, failed to interview the doctor who examined the assaulted nurse.

Responding to the claims on Channel One TV on August 27, 2025, he said that the committee spoke with everyone that was connected to the incident in one way or the other; including the said doctor.

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“Let me just say that my colleague in the studio said we've not spoken with the doctor who actually treated (sic) this lady. That is not correct. We spoke with everybody, including the doctor who saw (treated) the lady,” he said.

Goodman explained that the committee’s objective was not to assign blame to individuals, but rather to explore ways to improve the hospital’s systems.

He cautioned against attempts to undermine the work and findings of the committee.

“He's a specialist and this committee's work cannot be rubbished. This is an extensive work that we have done. We are not looking at who is at fault and what happened. We are looking at how best we can strengthen our system,” he stressed.

Goodman’s comments were in response to the Greater Accra Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Jefferson Asare, who was also present on the same interview.

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He had accused the committee, chaired by Dr Lawrence Ofori-Boadu, of failing to interview a key medical officer - the very doctor who first assessed the injured nurse, Rejoice Tsotso Bortei.

“I can say on record that the doctor that saw the lady was not even interviewed during the committee sitting. I know that for a fact, because the names that were provided for people that were interviewed are here. The medical report was written and stamped, I have it. The doctor’s name is there but he was not interviewed,” citinewsroom.com quoted him to have said during the interview.

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