The Ghana Medical Association is expected to meet with members of the association to finalize discussions on resigning from the public service should government fail to formulate conditions of service for them.
The association has since threatened to withdraw their services over their complaint.
[contextly_sidebar id=”WhxgonN3hNdXClULMPG0Ou86aT0zSA5M”]The Association, in a letter issued a final notice of their intention to protest on July 1 if government fails to meet their demands.
Meanwhile the National Council of GMA held a meeting on Thursday in Takoradi.
Dr. Jusitce Yankson, Deputy General Secretary of GMA speaking on the Eyewitness News after the meeting, said they will further hold an “extra ordinary meeting for all the over 2000 members of the association next week Monday in Accra” and decide on the way forward.
He said they will also look at “the progress made so far or otherwise and all that we planned in Takoradi will be figured for our total separation from the public service.”
Dr. Yankson lamented that after various threats “government hasn’t even come to the negotiation table, no date has been fixed for any negotiation to settle this matter so for us there is nothing really happening now. All that is being talked about is framework and at the end of the day we are entitled to take our decision.”
“We’ve passed that framework stage. We have looked at that documents, our comments on them have been made clear. But basically for us it not a problem, we are just adhering to our timeline.”
The doctors have decided that if government does not provide a condition of service for them, they would all resign from the public service.
According to them, because they don’t have any conditions of service, they are made to foot their medical bills when they get sick and that they also do not enjoy any retirement benefits.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana