The first time I wrote about a strike action, I made many enemies. That was in August 2013, exactly two years ago. The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) announced strike on August 1, 2013, to protest unpaid salary arrears. Within 12 hours, the government resolved the issue and started paying their arrears that were […]
Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on government and striking doctors to resume negotiations to save the lives of innocent and poor Ghanaians.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has scheduled Friday, August 14 to hold an extraordinary general assembly meeting to review its roadmap over members’ conditions of service. This decision was reached on Tuesday, August 11 at the 4th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in the Eastern Region capital of Koforidua. A statement issued at the end
1. PRESIDENT, NEGOTIATE AND SAVE LIVES Irmo, South Carolina 9TH August, 2015 Your Excellency, RE: NEGOTIATING WITH THE DOCTORS I have read with alarm, your comments regarding the curtailment of services by Ghanaian doctors. While your remarks appear consistent with your “dead goat philosophy”, your posture is unfortunate. To add to your remarks, NDC officials
Retired doctors are likely to replace striking members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) as they prepare to resign as a group on Friday. One of such retired doctors willing to fill the gap of the agitating GMA members is a former Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Elias Sore. Dr Sore told
The National Catholic Health Service has sacked 14 doctors in its Holy Family Hospital in Techiman.
Ghana’s major health referral center, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), has begun the discharge of patients, well or not, as a result of the impending withdrawal of emergency and in-patient services by doctors. The doctors have scheduled to withdraw those services after accusing government of ignoring their requests for proper conditions of service. They
An executive of the United Front Party (UFP), Listowell Nana Kusi-Poku, has dragged the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to court over its members’ decision to withdraw their services as part of a roadmap to resign en bloc from public service.
Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom is appealing to striking Ghanaian doctors to return to work and save thousands of lives as negotiations on better service conditions continue.
