Doctors: We are entitled to salary despite strike

Striking doctors have rubbished calls from a section of the public for their salaries to be withheld because they have not worked during the period of their strike.

The doctors have been on strike for almost a month over unpaid allowances and despite appeals by government, they have refused to back down until their demands are met.

The situation has fuelled calls from sections of the public who say their salaries should be withheld for the period they’ve on strike.

But according to the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Kwabena Opoku Adusei, members of the association have already received their salaries.

“Not that I expect to be paid, I have been paid and I have started chopping the money because I worked,” Dr Opoku Adusei declared.

“It is very, very, very fair. If you look at the practice and the norms of the country there is no group [that] has gone on strike and [their] money has not been paid.

“We did emergency services to some time, we are still doing in-patient...it is government that is preventing me from working [fully],” the GMA president stated.

“...I am very clear in my mind and so long as the strike continues, I will receive my salary...”