Presidency steps in to resolve doctors' grievances

A statement signed by the Minister of Information, Mr Mahama Ayariga, and issued at the end of the meeting said the Chief of Staff urged all parties in labour disputes to allow the appropriate institutions of state to resolve them.

After the meeting, the executives of the GMA and the FWSC, the statement said, subsequently paid a courtesy call on the Vice-President,  Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.

Doctors in public health facilities began a partial withdrawal of their services on Monday, February 11 following a call by the GMA on them to do so to protest against delays in resolving some sticky points regarding their migration onto the SSSS.

The full withdrawal of services is scheduled to begin on Monday, February 18, 2013.

There were, however, mixed responses to the call for doctors to begin a partial withdrawal of their services.

Some doctors in some public hospitals withdrew part of their services, while others ignored the call to begin a partial withdrawal of their services.

But the NLC has described the action as illegal and directed the doctors to discontinue the action.