Author: Kumasi Posted: 2013-02-11 12:00:37 Yes it is illegal greedy doctors. If doctors want the pay of on an MP, did somebody force them to be a doctor? This are some of the stupidity thoughts by some doctors to continue to fool by expecting to be payed like MPs. What the hell you think you doctors are? it is only in Ghana the public sit down for doctors to blind them and threaten with strikes. Are they not payed more than others in the health sector? Do they want them to collect the pay of an MP before doing the work they were trained free with our tax payers money to do. Do you know that doctores are number one saboteurs in Ghana who steal every second drugs for patients, surgical equipment bought with government money and then go to private hospital to use them? Do you know the number of plasters, gauze, examination and diagnostic materials they steal each day? Do you know that because the Ghanaian doctors are the most incompetent people in Ghana, that is why Korlebu Hosp and Okomfo Anokye Hosp has never operated efficiently up till date. Do you know they are nothing but hooligans inside white coat. Do you know that NHIS has been underperforming because the very Ghanaians doctors conive to fraud the system to divert money into their pockets for NHIS to collapse? Untill some idiots like you who support them get to know that a doctor is an ordinary worker like you and not Trees to be worshiped then they will have wrecked the whole nation. Are they not same people working yet we loose the precious lives of our sisters, brothers, chidren, friends etc? because they perform poorest to kill silently and turn back to use money as basis for strike action just to seek attention, Can you tell me in this forum whether they go to work and they are not being payed, or is not because of selfish and greediness drive that has caused this stupidity to continue. A neighbour country Togo doctors will not even do what they are doing. National wreckers. So called doctors, are they not the proffesionals raping innocent poor girls under the pretex of treatment. Did you just forget the investigation Anas made about doctors raping the cheapest poor, helpless and sick girls on their examination bed. What the fucking heck they need extra money for. If they want MPs money they can go and contest and become one? Nation Wreckers and Rapist of sick patients.
DOCTORS IN STRIKE!! ONLY IN GHANA!!!
Author: CTZ Posted: 2013-02-11 12:00:47 IS ONLY NI GHANA THAT YOU WILL SEE THIS NONSENCE NOT IN MY COUNTRY!! GO TO STRIKE AND COME NO MORE!!!!
NLC are Fire fighters !
Author: kb Posted: 2013-02-11 12:01:57 NLC, how do you people earn your salaries? The GMA has been complaining of the authorities not responding to their pleas, ignoring them all this while......what did you do? Sitting on your asses? Well hello? Wake up, doctors have been disrespected for too long....they don't make idle threats!!
LET'S GET SERIOUS NLC
Author: KWAME Posted: 2013-02-11 12:04:32 And nothing gets done by the sluggish, inefficient NLC and its associates, FWSC. Or is it a deliberate ploy by the powers that be to ruffle the feathers of these doctors so that when they strike, they are given a bad name? Let's all get up and do our jobs. These avoidable strikes will stop.
useless pple
Author: okukuseku Posted: 2013-02-11 12:06:40 So why our doctors never focus on issues like research and new discoveries or ask for funds to complete a research programe etc. Just salaries. U expect that they wld understand tht money is not all but never. Crazy pple. Plus we spend poor man's pple monies to educate them.
They need to earn what they want
Author: Ang Posted: 2013-02-11 12:06:40 Is there no way invoke this ppls license as doctors.Why should they always take the nation for ransom.Ones their monies are paid are they going to bring back the life of those that may have died due to strike?If no govt should deduct all the hours and days that these guys refuse to save life of ordinary Ghanians..Provide quality service and you'll be paid for that service
ADUSEI and his ADE SEI TACTICS AGAIN?
Author: SENSE PREFECT Posted: 2013-02-11 12:22:41 NEXT THING, ADE SEI WILL BE THREATENING TO TAKE EVERYBODY TO THE SUPREME COURT.
WHERE DO ALL THESE ADE SEI STRIKES START FROM? ADUSEI
A WORD OF ADVICE TO THE NLC
Author: Paul Amuna Posted: 2013-02-11 12:31:00 In industrial disputes especially involving key essential services such as clinical health services, it is not enough to say that "there is positive progress with negotiations". These matters must be given the utmost and expeditious attention around the clock and be resolved in all fairness and satisfactorily to avoid putting patients' lives at risk.
When will civil servants and politicians ever understand this simple logic?
I seem to recall a similar (and probably the first truly nationwide) doctors' strike in 1991 under the Rawlings government which 'forced Dr Kwesi Botchwey, then Secretary of Finance to hastily return from a donors' conference in Geneva to help address what was an appalling, lengthy and protracted "negotiations" with the GMA lasting over one and a half years! It was only when the doctors proved that they meant what they said that the government woke up to the seriousness of their grievances. It appears to me we are witnessing a similar situation here with the NLC.
Much as one does not advocate industrial action if it is uncalled for, my advice to the NLC is, take these matters seriously and act speedily to resolve them. Don't try to put the doctors or other health workers for that matter in an apparent bad light to the public because such 'blackmail' simply does not work.
It is also important to note that having given their whole life and career to serving the public, doctors are among the most dedicated public servants and if they are not well looked after when our politicians vote themselves GhC50,000 for their accommodation alone, it makes one wonder sometimes where our national priorities really lie. Just as MPs work deep into the night, trust me, doctors can be on call over a 72 to 90 hour periods depending on the particular department and team on duty. Please meet with their representatives and use a transparent, fair and commonsense approach to solving this problem and ensure it does not happen again.
When in 1991 the doctors eventually prevailed, promises were made, this will not be allowed to happen again. Then in the 2000s, we had the new national framework which led to the Single Spine System currently being operated. Unless all sides 'police' the system and ensure that there is fairness in remuneration, such disputes are bound to occur, much to the detriment of innocent patients who become victims!
DR. CAN EARN ABOUT £45,000 IN US, UK ET.
Author: TONY Posted: 2013-02-11 12:32:31 THIS KIND OF PROBLEM STARTED AT THE TIME OF THE LATE ATTA MILLS BUT NOTHING WAS DONE. THIS GOVERNMENT P/NDC IS BUSY INCREASING HIS MINISTERS PAY. THIS IS WHY THESE POOR DOCTORS ARE ANGRY. A DOCTOR CAN TRAVEL TO LONDON, US ETC. AND RECEIVE ABOUT £45,000 A YEAR STARTING PAY BUT THEY CHOOSE TO STAY IN GHANA AND THIS MAHAMMA IS PLAYING GAMES WITH THEIR PAY. MAY GOD PUNISH THIS SO CALLED GOVERNMENT P/NDC
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: TWEAAAAAAAA Posted: 2013-02-11 12:33:16 HOW LONG DO U NEED TO SOLVE SUCH A TRIVIAL ISSUE Mr BREDU
FOOLS,GIVING TOO MUCH MONEY TO MPs
Author: ADAMA Posted: 2013-02-11 12:35:23 FOOLISH COUNTRY LIKE GHANA. GIVING TOO MUCH MONEY TO FOOLISH GOOD FOR NOTHING MPs. while the hard working ghanaians are suffering.
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: TWEAAAAAAAA Posted: 2013-02-11 12:41:52 SOMETIMES WE ASK THAT , PROFESSIONALS SHOULD THINK ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS BUT LET ME ASK ; WHO OR WHAT ARE THE POLITICIANS EXPECTED TO THINK OF? Dr'S FORM JUST A SMALL PART OF THE ORGANISATION GIVEN TO POLITICIANS TO MANAGE. IT IS NOT NPP OR NDC ITS THE GOVERNMENT. PLEASE GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE MADE TO SIT UP. MOST OF THE DOCTORS WERE THE BRILLIANT ONES IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS AND KNOW WHEN TO ACT . THEY DID NOT ACT TO MAR THE ELECTIONS. LET US TOGETHER AS ONE (NOT NPP OR NDC)GET THE GOVERNMENT TO SIT UP AND EVEN EDUCATE US ON THE ISSUE AT STAKE AND NOT KNOCKING THE HEADS OF NPP AND NDC TOGETHER SHIELDING THE ISSUES AT STAKE. I FEEL THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ACT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
POLITICAL DOCTORS
Author: KOFI B Posted: 2013-02-11 13:19:57 NOBODY MUST BE SHOCKED ABOUT THE BEHAVIOUR OF LEADERSHIP OF THE DOCTORS.WE ALL REMEMBER SOMETIME AGO THEY HIRED A TYPICAL NPP MAN (KOFI 123)AS THEIR SPOKESPERSON WHEN THEY WERE ON A SIMILAR NEEDLESS STRIKE LIKE THIS ONE,MEANWHILE WHO CAN BETTER SPEAK THAN DOCTORS-TYPICAL POLITICAL AND DOING THE BIDDING OF THE NPP.
DO NOT PAY THEM
Author: OBIBINI Posted: 2013-02-11 13:40:20 I hope the government will not pay them for.
WHO CAUSED IT ?
Author: Fiifi Posted: 2013-02-11 13:42:53 Their illegal strick was cuased by you NLC. I think this commission is a sleeping dog only useful for telling its members their actions are illegal; where were you when they were calling for what they deserve all this while................NLC
ONLY GHANAIAN DRs WISHES PEOPLE DEATH
Author: STAPH-PHILADELPHIA Posted: 2013-02-11 13:55:59 It is only in Ghana that Doctors (most of who were trained to a large extent by the tax payers' money) are happy to see the same tax payers die miserably simply because some amount of money due them is not forth coming.
At the same time, some of their brothers and sisters in the same professional fraternity are making frantic efforts in other countries researching, volunteering immensely in various areas of their expertise and brainstorming various ways to raise funds to help save lives. What do we see in Ghana? Why are Ghanaian doctors working so hard to do the opposite?
I think it is about time they are taught 'NATIONALISM / PATROTISM' throughout the cause of their studies, for majority of them do not love their country the same way they love money.
Yes, Government can have some faults, but should the Doctors go to such an extreme to the point where precious lives; some of whom might save they (striking doctors) themselves or their families one day?
When I hear or read news like this, I begin to question whether Ghanaian doctors under GMA really understand their profession.
You were in the process of negotiating which has not broken but rather taking some time and all you could think about is to withdraw your services; what happened to other ways of solving problems? Are they not ready to even brainstorm? How many medical researches break through can the GMA boast of?
I strongly believe there are other public sectors suffering from these salary issues, but for the love of their motherland; a land that contributed to their education and development at some point in their lives, they chose a more mature and sympathetic way couple with patients that never run out to resolve their genuine grievances to the admiration of the citizenry.
GMA should know and understand that Ghana is a developing country and as such sacrifices ought to be made in various endeavors so as to be among the ones to one day, stand tall and beat their chest to the collective elevation of the country to a level where issues like this would be history.
If all these hasty strike actions is politically motivated, I advise GMA to rescind their decision before they lose public sympathy, for what pleasure do they derive from seeing innocent children, mothers and families of people who directly and indirectly support their (striking doctors) existence die like animals?
No Legal hair
Author: OTWENUA Posted: 2013-02-11 14:10:08 Just telling the public how you feel about this unfortunate strike action by GMA is not enough. You being taken aback is not what the people want to hear. The question is tell them what steps you have taken since you got that ultimatum or whatever you call it. The GMA outlined a number of reasons why they think a strike action is their last recourse. Engaging in semantics while people are being denied basic treatment is the last thing Ghanaians want to hear from you. Why do you people have to all the time wait till workers embark on strikes before attempting to offer solutions to their problems. Tell Ghanaians why you think that is a good strategy. Your actions or inactions don't seem to be solving the problems. Maybe you to take some lessons from the Pope's notice of resignation and do the noble thing to allow more serious and knowledgeable people to manage the affiars of this critical public institution.
No Legal Hair Splitting
Author: OTWENUA Posted: 2013-02-11 14:19:19 Just telling the public how you feel about this unfortunate strike action by GMA is not enough. You being taken aback is not what the people want to hear. The question is tell them what steps you have taken or are taking since you got that ultimatum or whatever you call it. The GMA outlined a number of reasons why they think a strike action is their last recourse. Engaging in semantics while people are being denied basic treatment is the last thing Ghanaians want to hear from you. Why do you people have to all the time wait till workers embark on strikes before attempting to offer solutions to their problems. Tell Ghanaians why you think that is a good strategy. Your actions or inactions don't seem to be solving the problems. Maybe you need to take a few lessons from the Pope's notice of resignation and do the noble thing to allow more serious and knowledgeable people to manage the affiars of this critical public institution. Enough of these incompetence and your attempt to cover that by enganging in a legal hair splitting exercise is unacceptable.
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: 123456789 Posted: 2013-02-11 14:25:08 please send them to court.
pepeni nkwasiasem
Author: insight to the bone Posted: 2013-02-11 14:32:21 you may have gotten your facts right but your interpretations are well off the mark as in geopolitics and the world today there are no secrets that can remain hidden for too long . Today whether we like it or not the world is divided into 3 spheres of influence or civilizations based on religion , Christianity , Islam and Buddhism/ Confucianism , With that in mind most of what is going on is very clear except to the blind who do not wish to see. Imperialism based on monarchism as a form of governance or world order has given way to democracy due to the fact that the one and only superpower of the world the USA prefers it so . We as Africans can not dream to participate fully in any world events as long as our borders we drawn by others who ensure we shall never develop or be able to afford our people a decent standard of living fit for the 21st century instead of this pre industrial 19th century Purgatory we now live in . our leaders have always flirted with the caliphate or far eastern philosophies which further push us into the vicious circle of staying confused about what to do. Whether or not we like it the minimal freedom we enjoy is not guaranteed by the islamists or chinese rather out so called arch enemy imperialists NATO or better put the american civil rights movement . Mills was killed because of the chinese and now mahama will also see an untimely end because of the Iranian/Turkish/ Malasian caliphate alliance he has willfully pushed us into as this islamists have always wished to dominate Africa . in the 60's all the way till quite recently they have used the palestinian question to hold us to ransom . our brothers by the ay never gave us the oil billions we needed to develop rather they gave it to the americans and europeans . instead they taught their people that we need to be kept only as slaves . Mills was wise and dropped them quickly but pepeni mahama runs to them to pay his dues in gold to reaffirm the commitment of his alajih tribesmen to their cause but we shall chop off his head true Akan style when the time comes . long live the Republic of Akan
Bood Sucking Doctors
Author: Luther King Posted: 2013-02-11 14:32:52 what do u expect when u over pamper lazy doctors? i hope one day the police will also go on strike and we shall see where the doctors will be. its so shameful how doctors can perpetuate illegality with impunity. well if in were the president i will declare all die be die and sack all these greedy bastards.
The NLC is stupid
Author: Kofi Posted: 2013-02-11 14:59:07 Who did not know this was coming? Idiots, you need to be up and doing rather than sitting in offices and pronoucing on legalities or illegalities. What Ghanaians want is to be able to go the hospitals and be seen by their doctors!
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: kwesi Posted: 2013-02-11 15:41:42 Don't worry the chairman of the GMA is an NPP member trained by Frimpong Boateng. The NPP plan of making Ghana ungovernable is on. luckily death does not know the difference between NPP and NDC members. Go on....
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: derek Posted: 2013-02-11 16:42:06 if anybody, even without education can just get into politics and start amasing wealth, then i support srike action by the GMA. for those who are saying greedy bastards, they should fall sick and tell doctors they are bastards.
Strike by GMA
Author: Solow Mensah Posted: 2013-02-11 17:00:52 Until we expand access to medical education, this nonsense will live with us. Do you know the connection that is involved before you are admitted to a medical school? It does not mean that those who go to the medical schools are the best brains in this country. The solution lies in solving the supply problem and their market price will naturally fall.
Re: GMA strike is illegal - NLC
Author: Mania. Posted: 2013-02-11 17:01:16 The ASsociation is led by card holding members of a political party.
politicians
Author: politicians Posted: 2013-02-11 17:03:19 PEOPLE ENTER POLITICE AND BECOME RICH OVER NIGHT WHAT DO YOU WANT A DOCTOR WHO HAS SIT ON HIS OR HER BOTT STUDYING FOR OVER 10 YEARS TO DO. common minister is receiving 8000 Ghana cedie a months + free car, petrol, housing, and many more benefits.May God have mercy on these corrupt politicians
gREEDy bASTARD
Author: aka baby boogaloo Posted: 2013-02-11 17:03:28 please apply the law and make it effective. one way is for them to say they have resigned.
enough is enough
Author: Abdul Rauf Posted: 2013-02-11 17:47:23 Doctors are greedy and wish a huge salary gap between them all state employees.
is time we see a bold government to put them in their place.
they only do the writing but infact, nurses do the real job. they only know how to write and wish they were bosses to nurses, which they are to wish forever.
nurses and doctors are of parellel proffesion.
Evil GMA
Author: Bettina Posted: 2013-02-11 19:46:21 Put the president of GMA in cort , how one leader insyed hie subordinate to this kind of revelionn that will cost the life of multiple innocent people including children's old ege patience , and pregnant woman , how will culememtation the millennium gpul with this actitud . Please if they will go on steele for each patience to will death give 20yrs in jeil . Them they said they are a Christian , where are you mercy and compassion for yours patience ,
Doctors on strike.
Author: Leslie Barnor, USA Posted: 2013-02-11 22:13:00 It's a shame to the entire medical profession, the rate at which these Doctors have turned their profession into ''Marketing Board'' meanwhile operating with the state aquired properties. It is no secret that the Doctors at the state hospitals are using the wards and beds for their personal business, they charge patients exhobitant fees to have them seen using the goverment hours.They have market themselves at the goverment hospitals and then refer the needy patients to their private clinics.When they charge monies too , no official receipts are given, not to mention taxes on those illegal fees collected. You see during the AFRC days they and their partners in crime, the lawyers made so much noise about the revolution, only to be revelled that they were not paying their share of the taxes that the ordinary civil servant pays regularly. Thanks to the AFRC, Jerry Rawlings and the then Citizen vetting Committee CVC. It has now become a fashion that every year or at every goverments turn of office these greedy professionals take advantage of the lives of the citizens in demanding monies from the state while they go on stealing from the same people through whose taxes they were trained. SHAME unto this Bastards. It is about time the Goverment and the Ministry of Health pay attention to the public outcry concerning how the Doctors have turned the goverment hospital into their private venture. This is no secret, am sure both past and present Ministers, and Deputy ministers of the Health ministry are all aware of this illegal trade going on at the goverment hospitals. SHAME SHAME to you greedy Doctors.
NLC, examine your conscience!
Author: Lazy ant Posted: 2013-02-12 03:17:32 The NLC should sit down and examine itself: what input did you make in the MPs monthly salaries and bonuses? What was the criteria? Are the MPs professionally trained MPs? Where did they get their training from and for how long? Please, give us the answers. This will help us to find solutions to the Doctors' problems.
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