The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has threatened to prevent its members from working for the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region.
[contextly_sidebar id=”E7aR9u4uElQaNUK2VJ1NXdpNUL2wiISh”]This is because the management of the Hospital sacked 14 senior and junior doctors from the facility “for declaring solidarity with the GMA’ decision to embark on strike.”
Responding to the issue on Accra based Asempa FM, General Secretary of the GMA, Dr Justice Yankson said the hospital will face their wrath.
“Do they think we are joking here? They will not even get doctors to work with at the facility. The next couple of months, we will see how they will get doctors to dispense health there and carry out surgeries. Management of the hospital would have to do it themselves,” he fumed.
Dr Yankson insisted that their threat is “not blackmail” saying “illegality and injustices have been perpetuated against us for long and it must stop.”
Dr. Yankson further questioned why “public sector workers have been provided with conditions of service with the exception of doctors. What kind of system are we running? The wrong in society would have to be corrected.”
Doctors in the public sector are currently on strike to demand the provision of conditions of service for them.
Several negotiations between government and leadership of the GMA have failed to yield any positive result.
The doctors have resolved to return to work only when their demands are met.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana