The Ghana Medical Association are currently on strike over their conditions of service.
It has been a long period of negotiations with government that has yielded little results, and thus the doctors have gone ahead and implemented their threats.
Ghanaians die like chickens because we have leaders who are very insensitive to the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian and are more concerned with their stomachs and their immediate families. There have been way too many instances of preventable deaths due to failure in our systems, but our leaders simply do not care because they … Read more
The Ghana Medical Association are currently on strike over their conditions of service.
It has been a long period of negotiations with government that has yielded little results, and thus the doctors have gone ahead and implemented their threats.
It is a measure of the general incompetence and the sheer indifference and of this government to the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian that we are five days away from the crippling of the health sector of this country.
The Ghana Medical Association is planning an en masse defection from the public health service to coincide with Republic Day, July 1 2015. On the day that Ghana would turn 55, 4,000 doctors are planning to lay down their tools and leave millions of Ghanaians without health care.
There is a planned meeting of the association’s executive council to decide if they should go ahead with the decision, but assuming they do government has less than a week to meet their demands.