Korle Bu Doctors still on strike

Striking junior doctors at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Saturday continued with their strike action to back their demands for proper incentive package for health workers and doctors.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) during a visit to the Hospital noticed that the place was deserted with a few doctors on the various blocks attending to in-patients. A doctor met at the Children's emergency ward who did not want to disclose his name to GNA said there were only three of them attending to the in-patients at the block.

He said the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) would be holding its quarterly general meeting on Sunday February 16 and he believed his colleagues would discuss the next action to take.

The GNA noticed that there were about five in-patients at the children' ward. The situation is not different from the other blocks such as the surgical and the Gynaecological blocks.

The doctors have refused to resume work despite appeals by senior doctors, hospital authorities and their representatives. A meeting held on Wednesday between the aggrieved doctors and their senior colleagues and the hospital authorities advised the doctors to go to work because their action was illegal.