Doctors won't boycott emergency cases
The National Executive Council of the Ghana
Medical Association (GMA) has rescinded its decision to embark on an
all-out strike on Monday.
Though the doctors would attend to emergencies cases, they will still not treat new patients at the Out Patients Department.
Doctors
in public hospitals nationwide, on Monday April 8, 2013, embarked on a
strike action to press home their demand for salary arrears and market
premium. The decision was reached at a National Executive Council
meeting of the Ghana Medical Association held in Kumasi last Saturday.
Even
though the doctors had threatened to stop seeing emergency cases from
Monday, they softened their decision after a crunch meeting on Sunday.
The
doctors are considering a proposal detailing how government plans to
pay their allowances, following mediation talks with the Trades Union
Congress.
Meanwhile, striking university teachers say they will
call off their strike if Monday’s meeting with the employment ministry
meets expectation.
But the leadership of the Government and
Hospital Pharmacists Association, GHOSPA says their members are still on
strike until their demands are met.