14 Doctors attend training in Accra
“We write to inform you of our resolve to resume work in line with the hospital’s mission to help the poor within the Techiman municipality.
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“Any inconvenience caused to the church, the hospital and its management is deeply regretted,” a letter jointly signed by the 14 doctors and addressed to the Hospital Administrator stated.
The letter, which was copied to the GMA Divisional Chairman, Brong Ahafo; the Diocesan Director of Health, Techiman Diocese; the management team and heads of departments of the hospital, however, said, “We, however, want to make known our conviction to continue to support unequivocally the action of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) in fighting for conditions of service for all public sector doctors.”
The affected doctors were released back to the Ghana Medical and Dental Council for reassignment following their decision to join doctors in government hospitals to embark on the ongoing strike.
They embarked on the strike on Friday, August 7, 2015, and on August 10, 2015, the hospital released them back to the council for re-assignment.
Confirmation by CHAG
Confirming the letter, the Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG), Mr Peter Kwame Yeboah, said, “I can confirm on authority that the matter has been resolved amicably among all the parties concern. That is, the GMA, CHAG and the management of the hospital.”
He said all the issues had been well resolved and “our value systems, principal and ethical norms have been affirmed by the parties involved”.
Mr Yeboah explained that the resort to strikes and industrial dispute had been put to rest, adding that the hospital took that decision because CHAG was a moral conscience of society and that it was in line with the position of CHAG to always defend the human face in all crisis situations.
Gratitude
“We are happy that care for the poor, the sick and the marginalised will be fully restored to capacity,” he said, adding that “in matters of this nature, the supreme interest of the sick person, the dying mother, the old man and all of us must assume the topmost priority; as a Christian institution, these things are paramount to us”.
He described the return of the doctors as a “moral victory” for all and for that matter there were no winners and losers.
“We are very relieved; we are excited; we are happy that our pre-strike capacity has been restored to enable us to deal with the situation.
“The matter is amicably settled and we need to move on to the business of caring for the dying, the sick and the poor and we hope this will trigger national action to resolve the impasse quickly,” he said.
