Augustine Collins Ntim, Deputy Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health, has blamed the Ghana Medical Association’s (GMA) strike on the display of mistrust by the government.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”V95Ud3CWivW68P6T6Ns4UFbGQedfhyiW”]Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> he said, \u201cright from the word go, the ground rules were leaked and doctors were being lambasted by government spokespersons.<\/p>\n Collins Ntim believes \u00a0going forward, government must\u00a0understand the medical officers and come out with the appropriate strategies to instill trust in the process.<\/p>\n “According to them [medical officers] government has betrayed them. Government needs to establish that confidence\u2026, so the doctors can come back to the negotiation table to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n The MP is of the view that the impact of the strike would have been reduced if\u00a0 the government had engaged with the doctors fairly.<\/p>\n “The\u00a0 doctors are Ghanaians and would have understood the constrain of the government,” he added.<\/p>\n The GMA laid down their tools to demand conditions service and insist they will not return to work until their issues are\u00a0addressed.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, government\u00a0 has threatened to\u00a0freeze the salaries of the striking doctors and other striking public sector workers.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Augustine Collins Ntim, Deputy Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health, has blamed the Ghana Medical Association’s (GMA) strike on the display of mistrust by the government. [contextly_sidebar id=”V95Ud3CWivW68P6T6Ns4UFbGQedfhyiW”]Speaking to Citi News he said, \u201cright from the word go, the ground rules were leaked and doctors were being lambasted by government spokespersons. Collins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3696,"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-142884","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\/142884","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=142884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}