Junior doctors at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) have resumed work, following earlier threats to take legal action against the hospital over unpaid salaries.
This followed a letter written and signed by the Hospital’s acting Chief Executive, Dr. Daniel Asare requesting the Medical and Dental Council to release 21-placed junior house officers from the hospital for failing to turn up for work for almost two weeks.
[contextly_sidebar id=”GluKvOQkU3555Nq1Cr8E0XxpouziBmOj”]In an interview with Citi News, Dr Asare confirmed writing the letter, adding that the junior doctors have since apologized for their actions and resumed work.
He however clarified that the “letter was an internal memo to them and then we copied the Registrar at the Medical and Dental Council. They have come to apologize, they have written individual apology letters and they have now started work.”
Dr. Asare narrated“the junior doct ors were given the option to choose to continue with the assignment the Medical and Dental Council gave them to come to Cape Coast and practice medicine for one year and after that they will go to the district for one year then they become doctors with eminent certificates but they decided to abrogate it.”
He stated that he gave them two choices: either to go for replacement or to continue.
“They have chosen the first option and all of them have now started work since yesterday.”
The doctors had earlier contemplated dragging government to court to compel it to pay them their 9-months salary arrears.
Dr. Attafuah in a Citi News interview said “we are looking at other options; we are just hoping that the government will only listen to us. We are also looking at the legal option, if we would have to take the government to court and ask the court to compel them to pay us our due,” he said. Dr Attafuah explained that “we are not even asking them [government] to pay us for the damages for the stress that we have encountered during these period of working nine months without salaries. All what we are saying is that just pay us the little that we deserve.”
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By Selassie A. Amissah Mensah