The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has parried off pressure from government and other stakeholders to call of their nationwide strike.<\/p>\n
The doctors say their\u00a0July 30 strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is to compel government to provide them with a document of their conditions of service.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”ErapHgS5Cb4Uvjv9GH7sYAjRPJCtziYC”]The strike has already having biting effects across the country.<\/p>\n GMA\u2019s action forced the management of the Korle Bu teaching hospital and other Government health facilities across the country to suspend services at their Outpatient Departments<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n General Secretary of the GMA, Dr. Frank Serebour explained to Citi News<\/strong> that they are not prepared to back down unless their concerns are addressed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe executive committee or the council cannot rescind this decision because it was taken by the general assembly. So what we can do is to call for another extra ordinary general assembly meeting and ask members to look at our decision and see whether there is any room to maneuver.\u201d<\/p>\n He insisted that \u201cour hierarchy is clear, once the general assembly takes up a decision nobody can review it, they can only review it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs at now we have not really met, but I don\u2019t think that we are not going to rescind our decision now. We have told ourselves that it is now or never because if doctors do not get conditions of service now I don\u2019t think we will ever get conditions of service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n