Medical Association Meets Striking Doctors

The Greater Accra Branch of the Ghana Medical Association will be meeting with representatives of striking junior doctors of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital this afternoon. The meeting is aimed at persuading the doctors to call off their strike which began on Monday.

The secretary of the medical association, Dr. Jehu-Appiah, told the Ghana News Agency that the Association has already condemned the strike action and appealed to the doctors to go back to work while negotiations continued.

The association has issued a statement calling on the government to come out with an incentive package for health workers and doctors by the end of March this year.

Junior doctors at the teaching hospital withdrew their services due to what they described as the delay in the negotiations for better conditions of service. The strike action has crippled services at the teaching hospital.

It has also resulted in a massive influx of patients to various hospitals such as the Police Hospital and the Labadi Polyclinic.