Doctors threaten to hit their debts | General news

The Ghana Medical Association has threatened to withdraw outpatient services in public facilities from Monday, August 6, 2018 if the government does not honor the distinguished doctors emeritus in space from one week.

the public sector would then withdraw "all emergency services" from August 20 if their requests were not heard.

They also threatened to withdraw all services rendered by public sector doctors from Monday, August 27th if the problems were not resolved in time.

Addressing a press conference at Jirapa in the Upper West Region The 4th meeting of the National Executive Council, the President of the Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea, said that "the GMA will continue to inform its members and the general public of any development ".

Dr. Ankobea stated that the GMA had government until the end of April 2018 to honor its obligations to members of the Association because of a binding arbitral award made by the National Labor Commission.

The debts owed by the government to members of the Association were caused by After being victim of a reduction in pensions as a result of the migration to the single salary policy, the difference in conversion has not been paid since December 2011, said Dr. Ankobea. 002] Dr. Ankobea said: "It is worth noting that the government (through the Ministry of Health) has engaged GMA only one week before the deadline, and has only requested that the GMA grant a funding period until the end of May. "

Dr. Ankobea stated that the GMA had even extended the grace period requested by the government until the end of June 2018.

He said that it was "discouraging to find that despite all these extensions, the government has

Dr. Ankobea's address appeared in a statement issued by the Association at the end of the celebrations of its 60th anniversary