{"id":142245,"date":"2015-08-10T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142245"},"modified":"2015-08-10T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:40:42","slug":"decentralize-recruitment-of-doctors-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=142245","title":{"rendered":"Decentralize recruitment of doctors &#8211; Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe is asking government to decentralize the hiring and payment of doctors and other public servants across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;8fY8lcCG7x0B3SsxYkDsqsQv9fdnaVB7&#8243;]According to him, this will help in finding a solution to the incessant strikes on the labour market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government doctors, pharmacists and university teachers are currently on strike for varying reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The doctors are threatening to resign en block on August 29 if government does not work on their conditions of service document.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on Citi FM&#8217;s news analysis program, Bi Issue , Franklin Cudjoe asked \u00a0doctors to insist on the decentralized process describing it as an antidote to the strikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe want you to be part of the idea of devolution and give power to districts, municipalities so that they can employ us directly, stop the practice where I have to make sure I submit my documents to you and come and line up at the Controller and Accountant-General\u2019s Department to take my 11 month salaries\u2026It\u2019s not progressive, it\u2019s not scientific,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe is asking government to decentralize the hiring and payment of doctors and other public servants across the country. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;8fY8lcCG7x0B3SsxYkDsqsQv9fdnaVB7&#8243;]According to him, this will help in finding a solution to the incessant strikes on the labour market. Government doctors, pharmacists and university teachers are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":103302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-142245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}