Gov's not meeting the Ghana Medical Association about imminent strike – Local



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The Ministry of Health has scheduled an emergency meeting with leaders of the Ghana Medical Association on its planned strike next week.

The meeting, which will be chaired by Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu

The department's public relations officer, Robert Cudjoe, said Monday, July 30 that an emergency meeting was scheduled the same day or Tuesday to take care of doctors. ALSO FIGHTING: Paying our allowance otherwise we will strike – UTAG threatens the government

The Ghana Medical Association has filed a list of claims for compensation by the government, threatening to embark on a strike action if the [19659006] A statement issued by the badociation at the end of its 4th annual executive board meeting in Jirapa in the Upper West region noted

Physicians threatened an indefinite strike, effective Monday, August 6, 2018, until a list of their demands was met by the government.

the public sector will withdraw its outpatient services until August 19 and intensify its industrial action by withdrawing emergency services from August 20 to August 27, when they declare a full strike if their requests are still not satisfied.

the question of doctors who suffered a reduction in their pensions as a result of their migration to the single wage policy; and the non-payment of conversion differences, is still outstanding since December 2011, despite the binding arbitration decision of the NLC that binds both parties and the subsequent directive of the NBC to the government to rectify the same.

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