The National Council of the Ghana Medical Association will hold a crunch meeting today to deliberate on the plan of action for its threat to resign en bloc if government fails to present its conditions of service by Tuesday June 30.
[contextly_sidebar id=”sB3UMVtiKqdPnJHiwQBaLS426KK6fjRV”]GMA General Secretary Dr. Frank Serebour explained that the meeting will help the leadership of the association to determine how to address the matter, adding that it will also ensure that “when it is time for us to retire, there will be no issues and then we will also get feedback from the various regions.”
This comes on the back of a meeting with the National Labour Commission (NLC) on Wednesday where the GMA was directed to continue talks with government over its concerns.
Citi News however understands that the Ministry of Health acting on the advice of the NLC has given a framework on the GMA’s conditions of service to the doctors to study.
In an interview with Citi News, GMA General Secretary Dr. Frank Serebour stated the meeting will among other things, strategize on the way forward.
He mentioned that the agenda for the emergency council meeting is very simple; to deliberate on their conditions of service.
The doctors since November 2014 have been issuing a series of warnings to the government in demand for conditions of service.
They threatened to resign at the end of June 2015 should their demands not be met.
The Health Ministry had early on said it was unsure if it would be able to meet the doctors’ deadline but it seems to have managed to work within the stipulated time frame.
“I’m sure we all remember that we have put forward in the media since November last year that if by the end of this month we don’t get our conditions of service, we were going to consider ourselves unemployed,” Dr. Serebuor narrated.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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