Striking doctors want to blackmail government - Pratt

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yaw 12 years ago

the most dangerous personin ghana now is"esin"prat.

the most dangerous personin ghana now is"esin"prat.
HASSAN RASTA 12 years ago

YOUR SO CALLED NPP AND ITS GREEDY LEADER NANA AKUFFO ADDO THE CERTIFICATE LESS LAWYER ARE BEHIND ALL THIS. BUT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT BIG TIME BY THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH.

YOUR SO CALLED NPP AND ITS GREEDY LEADER NANA AKUFFO ADDO THE CERTIFICATE LESS LAWYER ARE BEHIND ALL THIS. BUT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT BIG TIME BY THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH.
OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

NANA ADDO SAID IT

NANA ADDO SAID IT
NANA 12 years ago

EMPTY BRAINS NOT DOCTORS

EMPTY BRAINS NOT DOCTORS
Nana Antwi-Berko 12 years ago

The Doctors are simply greedy & lazy yet they want to establish their importance the government and people of Ghana. They have no where to go and behave in this unprofessional manner.

The Doctors are simply greedy & lazy yet they want to establish their importance the government and people of Ghana. They have no where to go and behave in this unprofessional manner.
TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

Mahama must show tough and the trick will tick tack. Sack them la.

Mahama must show tough and the trick will tick tack. Sack them la.
FELA O FELA: NPP BONESHAKER LA 12 years ago

ANOTHER ALL-DIE-BE-DIE STRIKE

I said it before that these strikes are all politically motivated la...

That all the various groups or unions are fighting over pittance or imaginary benefits that themselves do not underst ...
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ANOTHER ALL-DIE-BE-DIE STRIKE

I said it before that these strikes are all politically motivated la...

That all the various groups or unions are fighting over pittance or imaginary benefits that themselves do not understand.

That as soon one strike ends, another group takes up the torch....thus making mockery of the government.

ALL THESE STRIKES ARE STRATEGIZED TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT LOOK AS A FAILURE ....WHICH NPP WILL USE AS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE SHOULD THERE BE A SECOND ROUND DUE TO THE ELECTION PETITION THAT IS BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT.

HOW CAN DOCTORS AND NURSES AND TEACHERS BE STRIKING IF THEY ARE NOW MAKING THREE TO FOUR TIMES MORE THAN THEY WERE MAKING IN THE KUFFOUR ERA? HOW???

I remembered the GMA warning to go on strike in March of 2009 because they haven't been paid for 18 month!!!!!! That is a year and a half. But today, thanks to the NDC implemented SSSS that the NPP for eight years said was impossible to implement, they are now striking over miscellaneous or side benefits such as market premiums ( which was meant to attract hard to find personnel and to post workers in remote areas) as well as greed as to the ill-assumption of one group or sector or discipline getting more money than the other. (e.g., prison guards and fire service embarking on strike over the fact or assumption that the police and military personnel are making more than they are....as though they are all doing the same job). Now, nurses are threatening to embark on another strike because pharmacists "graduates" are making more money than they are....which is the case all across the world. It is so sad!!!!

IGNORANCE IGNORANCE IGNORANCE .... while putting innocent lives in danger with impunity because they know or think that government can not fire them all.....if only only the government can garner the courage to fire these stikers then hire them back as "contractors" ....they would all be sing a whole new tune, I bet you!!! So many people are looking for work in GHANA and even abroad and these people are fooling about. IF GOVERNMENT ONLY HAS THE COURAGE TO PUT ITS FOOT DOWN!!!! WITHOUT FEAR NOR FAVOR!!!

Because the leaders of these various organisations are all NPP, they are using the strikes to protest on behalf of their party losing an election, thus making it difficult for the MAHAMA administration to govern. They said it themselves thru the person of Gabby Otchere Darko.
KNYC (USMC) 12 years ago

You have the balls to call them lazy. If you were not lazy your name will have been Dr. Antwi-Berko. Not so common name like nana. Why don't you take your time and read about Compensation Surveys and you will understand why t ...
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You have the balls to call them lazy. If you were not lazy your name will have been Dr. Antwi-Berko. Not so common name like nana. Why don't you take your time and read about Compensation Surveys and you will understand why these Dortors need to be retaining. Moron.
Nana Kofi Gyasi 12 years ago

IS KWESI PRATT WHO HAS LOST HIS INTERGRITY FOR HIS STOMACH AND POCKET JOURNALISM, NOW, A SPEAKER FOR THIS NOTORIOUS, CORRUPT AND KILLER OF ATA MILLS, JUDGEMENT DEPT MAHAMA AND THE NDC? KWESI PRATT YOU ARE DOOMED FOR EVER AND ...
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IS KWESI PRATT WHO HAS LOST HIS INTERGRITY FOR HIS STOMACH AND POCKET JOURNALISM, NOW, A SPEAKER FOR THIS NOTORIOUS, CORRUPT AND KILLER OF ATA MILLS, JUDGEMENT DEPT MAHAMA AND THE NDC? KWESI PRATT YOU ARE DOOMED FOR EVER AND THY KINGDOM COME. YOU STUPID IDIOT.
HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 12 years ago

BLOOD MONEY IN THE PURSUIT OF POLITICAL AGENDA. THE GMA LEADERSHIP IS CLEARLY BLACKMAILING GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY KNOW NPP HAS ALREADY LOST THEIR BOGUS CASE AT THE SUPREME COURT. THEY WILL BE JUDGED BY THE GHOSTS OF ALL WHO ...
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BLOOD MONEY IN THE PURSUIT OF POLITICAL AGENDA. THE GMA LEADERSHIP IS CLEARLY BLACKMAILING GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY KNOW NPP HAS ALREADY LOST THEIR BOGUS CASE AT THE SUPREME COURT. THEY WILL BE JUDGED BY THE GHOSTS OF ALL WHO DIE BECAUSE OF THEIR IRRESPONSIBLE STRIKE ACTION.

the truth 12 years ago

some people talk like fools.how can you pay the mps more than the medical officers, who saves thousands of lives in a month.the mps are the greedy and the lazy once.they should go and work in the hospitals,cure people since i ...
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some people talk like fools.how can you pay the mps more than the medical officers, who saves thousands of lives in a month.the mps are the greedy and the lazy once.they should go and work in the hospitals,cure people since it`s so easy to become medical officers.God help our sick nation.
abijah cartlow 12 years ago

Hassan, the politicians can fool ur kinsman who r illiterate n half baked graduates n not doctors

Hassan, the politicians can fool ur kinsman who r illiterate n half baked graduates n not doctors
God sent to talk 12 years ago

What is the profession of your father and mother. have they gone to school before? if yes how much have the gain or achieve as on their own compare most of the npp

What is the profession of your father and mother. have they gone to school before? if yes how much have the gain or achieve as on their own compare most of the npp
Cpl Andoh 12 years ago

H. RASTA, I must admit that you are very foolish man who has no common sense in your brain. Do you realize the impacts of Doctors strike on a nation at all? Let's put politics aside. Anyway you are stupid man

H. RASTA, I must admit that you are very foolish man who has no common sense in your brain. Do you realize the impacts of Doctors strike on a nation at all? Let's put politics aside. Anyway you are stupid man
Mame Amma 12 years ago

This is known as sabotage. Everyone working for themselves instead of Mother Ghana.

This is known as sabotage. Everyone working for themselves instead of Mother Ghana.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

It is so strange to see some Ghanaian People who call themselves civilized but cannot and does not want to speak the truth and call spade a spade.

Look at this senseless and the most hopeless monkey Kwesi Pratt, does this ...
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It is so strange to see some Ghanaian People who call themselves civilized but cannot and does not want to speak the truth and call spade a spade.

Look at this senseless and the most hopeless monkey Kwesi Pratt, does this Kwesi Pratt knows that if Mahama
can force Alfred Agbesi Woyome to pay
back that 52 million dollars he Mahadma helped Woyome to robbed from the majority people of this country
such money can pay the doctors the money they are seeking for?

Why Kwesi Pratt can't shout on top of his voice by asking Mahama to force
Alfred Agbesi Woyome to bring back the
$52 million dollars he is not entitled
but because of dubious employment of
NDC corrupted administration helped
Woyome to rob from the civilized Ghanaian people?

Kwesi Pratt please fuck-off and give
we the civilized Ghanaians a break as
we all know you and the NDC monkey political thievery tactics you NDC
monkeys have employed to milk the
majority people of this nation. Swine.
OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

FROM DAY ONE; NPP SAID IT

FROM DAY ONE; NPP SAID IT
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

If NDC want to Govern and govern well
thievery, corruption, rigging wont help them to govern well, transparency, accountability, social justice, truth and genuine political practices is answer to problems, but
NDC cannever ...
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If NDC want to Govern and govern well
thievery, corruption, rigging wont help them to govern well, transparency, accountability, social justice, truth and genuine political practices is answer to problems, but
NDC cannever be truthful but they employed deceit, dishonest, corruption, thievery, violence, lies,
intimidation, unsubstantiated allegations, economical confusion and
weak Leadership is NDC political practices and such will not help them
to govern not NPP making them ungovernable.
Gigi 12 years ago

Please help me. I don't know Mr. Pratt in person. Is the picture that of Mr. Pratt or Count Dracula? The "fangs" look too sharp for my liking. Please help me.

Please help me. I don't know Mr. Pratt in person. Is the picture that of Mr. Pratt or Count Dracula? The "fangs" look too sharp for my liking. Please help me.
Cpl Andoh 12 years ago

Does "Dogy" Pratt has respect for human at all. This striking matter is about life and death issue and therefore that idiot(Pratt) must desist from playing any dangerous act with it.

Thank you Yaw.

Does "Dogy" Pratt has respect for human at all. This striking matter is about life and death issue and therefore that idiot(Pratt) must desist from playing any dangerous act with it.

Thank you Yaw.

Honesty -the best policy! 12 years ago

Comrade, you have hit the nail point-blank. This is a strike against the poor and vulnerable who cannot afford the private hospital alternative. It is most callous and wicked. But the Good Lord who is the giver of life shall ...
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Comrade, you have hit the nail point-blank. This is a strike against the poor and vulnerable who cannot afford the private hospital alternative. It is most callous and wicked. But the Good Lord who is the giver of life shall not let the people die. "We'll shall survive it" said Bob Marley.
HASSAN RASTA 12 years ago

THESE STUPID NPP GREEDY FOOLS ARE BEHIND ALL THESE STRIKES IN THE COUNTRY. BUT WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. THOSE THAT GOD HAD CHOSEN THEM TO END THEIR LIVES WITH THIS STRIKE WILL DIE AND THOSE WHO WILL SURVIVE WILL SURV ...
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THESE STUPID NPP GREEDY FOOLS ARE BEHIND ALL THESE STRIKES IN THE COUNTRY. BUT WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. THOSE THAT GOD HAD CHOSEN THEM TO END THEIR LIVES WITH THIS STRIKE WILL DIE AND THOSE WHO WILL SURVIVE WILL SURVIVE. BUT THE GREEDY MAN WHO WANT TO BE A PRESIDENT BY HOOK OR CROOK WILL SOON PAY FOR IT. NANA ADDO AND HIS FOOLS WILL ALSO TASTE THE PAIN ONE DAY.
Kofi - USA 12 years ago

HASSAN HOW CAN YOU DRAW THE CONCLUSION THAT ALL DOCTORS IN GHANA ARE SYMPATHETIC TO NPP. BE SENSIBLE AND INTELLIGENT. WHY DONT YOU ASK THE GOVT TO PAY THEM WHAT IS DUE THEM. HAS THE MPS AND THE PRESIDENT NOT BEEN PAID? THE GO ...
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HASSAN HOW CAN YOU DRAW THE CONCLUSION THAT ALL DOCTORS IN GHANA ARE SYMPATHETIC TO NPP. BE SENSIBLE AND INTELLIGENT. WHY DONT YOU ASK THE GOVT TO PAY THEM WHAT IS DUE THEM. HAS THE MPS AND THE PRESIDENT NOT BEEN PAID? THE GOVT SHOULD PAY THEIR EMPLOYEES AND THERE WILL BE NO STRIKES. I DONT WANT DOCTORS TO GO ON STRIKE BUT THEY HAVE TO BE PAID THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE SO THAT THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILY AND RESPONSIBILITIES. NDC SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND DONT BLAME NPP BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE PARTY IN POWER. DOCTORS WENT ON STRIKE WHEN NPP WAS IN POWER.
HASSAN RASTA 12 years ago

WHY CANT THEY WAIT TO HEAR FROM THE GOVERNMENT IF HE REFUSED THEIR DEMAND BEFORE THEY GO TO STRIKE?

WHY CANT THEY WAIT TO HEAR FROM THE GOVERNMENT IF HE REFUSED THEIR DEMAND BEFORE THEY GO TO STRIKE?
abe 12 years ago

Sensible Ghanaians are aware that NPP is behind all t
hese strikes going on in the country just to discredit the go ernment f
or their selfish political gains.

Sensible Ghanaians are aware that NPP is behind all t
hese strikes going on in the country just to discredit the go ernment f
or their selfish political gains.
Green 12 years ago

ISSUES LIKE THESE ARE VERY DELICATE YOU KNOW IN CASE YOUR MONEY IS WITH HELD BY SOME ONE WILL YOU BE GLAD TO WATCH LIKE THAT, ANYWAY THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO TAKE UP THE RESPONSIBILITY AND TAKE NECESSARY STEPS TO ENSURE BETTER ...
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ISSUES LIKE THESE ARE VERY DELICATE YOU KNOW IN CASE YOUR MONEY IS WITH HELD BY SOME ONE WILL YOU BE GLAD TO WATCH LIKE THAT, ANYWAY THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO TAKE UP THE RESPONSIBILITY AND TAKE NECESSARY STEPS TO ENSURE BETTER STEPS AS TO DOING WELL IN EVERYTHING RIGHT
THIEF JOHN MAHAMA 12 years ago

KWASI PRATT TALKS LIKE A FOOL. HE TALKS LIKE HE HAS GUINEA FOWL BRAINS. IDIOT .. ..IGNORE THIS FOOLISH NDC MAN. WHERE IS WOYOME MONEY. THIEVES

KWASI PRATT TALKS LIKE A FOOL. HE TALKS LIKE HE HAS GUINEA FOWL BRAINS. IDIOT .. ..IGNORE THIS FOOLISH NDC MAN. WHERE IS WOYOME MONEY. THIEVES
Yaw John 12 years ago

Too much "weed" has rendered this fool useless!!

Hahaha, "wee" is dangerous !!

Too much "weed" has rendered this fool useless!!

Hahaha, "wee" is dangerous !!
Nana 12 years ago

Kwesi Pratt is right by saying so. we can't take the doctors seriously if they do not respect their agreement with the government. I understand that in Africa, when one shows solidarity and understanding to others' problems t ...
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Kwesi Pratt is right by saying so. we can't take the doctors seriously if they do not respect their agreement with the government. I understand that in Africa, when one shows solidarity and understanding to others' problems then he is in trouble. The doctors' problems have always been there so do they want the goverment to convert themself to magicians and address the problems of the nation in one or two days? President MAhama, please request the cuban, iranian governments and other good wills in Africa to bring some doctors to assist ghanainians in the medical front and forget about these money hunters. Enough is enough!
TECHSTORE 12 years ago

Hey Nana, so is that your mind? You are so stupid and one of of those who ignorantly accepts the status quo!
I bet you dont know what doctors go through! i tell you they are more important to us than these good-for-nothing p ...
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Hey Nana, so is that your mind? You are so stupid and one of of those who ignorantly accepts the status quo!
I bet you dont know what doctors go through! i tell you they are more important to us than these good-for-nothing politicians who keep stealing and paying themselves unspeakable amounts of money... How much money haven't they paid in less three years in judgement debts alone? if someone is to blame for not respecting agreements, let it first apply to Government! what ignorance!?? how is it that doctors are at post and yet aspects of their pension is still not fixed? As for kwesi Prat and his rabble-rousing nonesense, I will tackle somewhere else!

Nana 12 years ago

TECHSTORE, before I can be stupid, your grand fathers and mothers as well as your father and mother who failed to educate you to live and respect other people in the society were the first to be so stupid and useless for mot ...
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TECHSTORE, before I can be stupid, your grand fathers and mothers as well as your father and mother who failed to educate you to live and respect other people in the society were the first to be so stupid and useless for mother land, Ghana, by giving birth to someone like you. Go to the church this evening to confess your sin for having insulted and offended someone you don't know and who just gave his opinion on a public issue. If you don't do it, God will take my defense. Don't forget to tell the priest what was my reply to you.
Cpl Andoh 12 years ago

Good comment so far Techstore, Leave that Idiot Nana, He is not educated being who doesn't even know what Doctors do. I blame our leaders for paying so much attention to Our foolish Ministers and not Doctors.

Well done!!

Good comment so far Techstore, Leave that Idiot Nana, He is not educated being who doesn't even know what Doctors do. I blame our leaders for paying so much attention to Our foolish Ministers and not Doctors.

Well done!!
Nana 12 years ago

Cpl Andoh as you call yourself, it is unfortunate that the humanity is yet to invent medicine against stupidity,ignorance,hatrate, that could relive you from all these natural and artificial sicknesses. we are praying God to ...
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Cpl Andoh as you call yourself, it is unfortunate that the humanity is yet to invent medicine against stupidity,ignorance,hatrate, that could relive you from all these natural and artificial sicknesses. we are praying God to wash your dirty brain for you and bring you among human beings.
ADWOA 12 years ago

What is good for paul, is good for peter. Doctors also need money just like the foolish MPs. Kwasi Pratt is a fool leave him to talk rubbish.

What is good for paul, is good for peter. Doctors also need money just like the foolish MPs. Kwasi Pratt is a fool leave him to talk rubbish.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

To pay Alfred Agbesi Woyome such a gargantuan $52 million dollars but to decline the Doctors their rewards for
the services they have rendered to the State and the majority people of this nation, what should we expect from t ...
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To pay Alfred Agbesi Woyome such a gargantuan $52 million dollars but to decline the Doctors their rewards for
the services they have rendered to the State and the majority people of this nation, what should we expect from the Doctors, Teachers, Nurses and Mid-wives, Pharmacists and many
Ghanaian workers in our country.

Where did Mhama get his money from to
purchase those two Jet aircrafts for himself asnd his brother, 6 fleet of Rolls Royces when the majority people of Ghana cannot even get electricity to help their children
to study and go about their daily genuine businesses? Adwoa I thank you for your perfect submissions, God bless you.
spanky 12 years ago

Adoaw or what ever you call yourself,if your brains were functioning well you would not be insulting unneccessarily when the issue here is about life and death.Kwasiaba.

Adoaw or what ever you call yourself,if your brains were functioning well you would not be insulting unneccessarily when the issue here is about life and death.Kwasiaba.
KNYC (USMC) 12 years ago

Kwasia like you spanky. You talking about life and death,what do you expect them (Dr) to feed their family with sand? Why don't you go fuck yourself spanky. Big fool.

Kwasia like you spanky. You talking about life and death,what do you expect them (Dr) to feed their family with sand? Why don't you go fuck yourself spanky. Big fool.
EBENEZER - SUNYANI 12 years ago

Kwasi Pratt. What is wrong with you?.

Kwasi Pratt. What is wrong with you?.
MM 12 years ago

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N D C 12 years ago

THE RAT TEETH MAN

THE RAT TEETH MAN
AKOS 12 years ago

NPP PROMISED MAHAMA UNGOVERNABLE GHANA.WE ARE SEEING EXACTLY THAT.BUT THEY WILL FAIL.MAHAMA ALL THE WAY.

NPP PROMISED MAHAMA UNGOVERNABLE GHANA.WE ARE SEEING EXACTLY THAT.BUT THEY WILL FAIL.MAHAMA ALL THE WAY.
ZONGO BOY 12 years ago

IT'S ONLY A PRATT THAT MAKES SUCH STATEMENT, IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY MINISTERS, POLICE PERSONEL, ARMED FORCES PERSONEL INCLUDING ALL PERKS AND LEAVE OTHER ESSENTIAL WORKERS OUT IN FAVOUR OF FINANCING PRODUCTION OF GUINEA FOW ...
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IT'S ONLY A PRATT THAT MAKES SUCH STATEMENT, IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY MINISTERS, POLICE PERSONEL, ARMED FORCES PERSONEL INCLUDING ALL PERKS AND LEAVE OTHER ESSENTIAL WORKERS OUT IN FAVOUR OF FINANCING PRODUCTION OF GUINEA FOWL, TREE PLANTING, PRESIDENTIAL OVERSPENDING, BOOSTING PARLIMENTARY STAFFING SALARIES BY INTRODUCING 45 NEW SEAT AND ALSO LARGE NUMBER OF PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES ALL THESE INCREASE WAGE BILLS, THEY WILL BR PAID THEIR FULL DUES BEFORE THE DOCTORS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES. THIS IS GETTING PRIORITIES WRONG OR PICKING UP CONFRONTATION WITH OTHER WORKERS HOPING THAT BY SATISFYING THE LAW ENFORCING BODIES THEY USE THEM TO TWART ANY STRIKES. WHILE YOU CONDERMING DOCTORS CONDERM HOW THE GOVERNMENT WITH ENORMOUS WEALTH FINDS ITSELF IN A POSITION WHEREBY HE CANT AFFORD TO PAY ITS WAGE BILL, SIMPLY A SHAME ON A GOVERNMENT THAT HAS LOST ITS WAY IN GOVERNANCE.
kofi 12 years ago

thank you for this nice contribution. I am very gratefull , mr Prat. God bless you.

thank you for this nice contribution. I am very gratefull , mr Prat. God bless you.
PAPA 12 years ago

If the doctors are complaining that they want their basic salaries restored to the former level, because of pension calculations, the Government should raise their basic salaries and take away the premium that is non-taxable. ...
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If the doctors are complaining that they want their basic salaries restored to the former level, because of pension calculations, the Government should raise their basic salaries and take away the premium that is non-taxable. They cannot have the two. The premiums came about as a form of compensation. I also wish to advise Government to open up the Medical Schools for more persons to be trained like happens in Cuba. there are many people who can be doctors but because the intake is restricted, we are forced to be slaves to a few.
Private Hospitals take the payments from the Health Insurance and pay their doctors from there-in: Where are the monies paid to our hospitals by the Health Insurance Scheme programme going. Government should tackle this matter now so that in 10 years time, no group of persons can hold the whole nation to ransom. If the police decide to go on strike, do the doctors know what will happen to them. Even if they have a case, that is not the way to go about it. The Government has not even settled and yet people who ought to know are the ones destroying the system.
BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

Well said Kwesi. Lets call a spade, a spade. Enough is enough.

Well said Kwesi. Lets call a spade, a spade. Enough is enough.
Onua Francis 12 years ago

Dr opoku Adusei is working for NPP . They met at Begoro some time ago and decided to make the country ungovernable if AKUFFO addo is no made president. After this strike the nurses will follow. Their president is asante krobe ...
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Dr opoku Adusei is working for NPP . They met at Begoro some time ago and decided to make the country ungovernable if AKUFFO addo is no made president. After this strike the nurses will follow. Their president is asante krobea . Check the names.
JB 12 years ago

Kwesi Pratt, I agree with you. Can the Government universities lower the grade for medicine and get more people into this vocation? Government should also get scholarship for more people to stay medicine in India, USA, Cuba a ...
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Kwesi Pratt, I agree with you. Can the Government universities lower the grade for medicine and get more people into this vocation? Government should also get scholarship for more people to stay medicine in India, USA, Cuba and these Doctors shouldn't be members of the GMA. They look very inconsiderate in their demand.
MOHAMMED 12 years ago

OUR Government must set up an agreement with any country where our student are going under scholarship that, they're coming back home after their education. There are a lot of Ghanaian Doctors in America, Canada and Britain. ...
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OUR Government must set up an agreement with any country where our student are going under scholarship that, they're coming back home after their education. There are a lot of Ghanaian Doctors in America, Canada and Britain. some of them were being sponsored by the Government of Ghana and today, they are living and working in these countries.
yaw 12 years ago

If you are a good Government nobody can make the Conntry ungovernable.

If you are a good Government nobody can make the Conntry ungovernable.
FREE MAN 12 years ago

THERE ARE LOTS OF SPOILT PRAT IN THE SYSTEM.

THERE ARE LOTS OF SPOILT PRAT IN THE SYSTEM.
KASAVUBU 12 years ago

The strike must go on until the doctors are paid just as they did to the MPs. Where in the world do politicians earn more than doctors?

The strike must go on until the doctors are paid just as they did to the MPs. Where in the world do politicians earn more than doctors?
GHANANI 12 years ago

The GMA has only one aim and that is bringing down the government of president Mahama.They are just pursuing the NPP agenda of making the nation ungovernable and the government unpopular.

The GMA has only one aim and that is bringing down the government of president Mahama.They are just pursuing the NPP agenda of making the nation ungovernable and the government unpopular.
Jorotara 12 years ago

The GMA chairman Dr. Serebour is an NPP agent who is out to blackmail the NDC government .
Conscienceless Idiot he is

The GMA chairman Dr. Serebour is an NPP agent who is out to blackmail the NDC government .
Conscienceless Idiot he is
Kwaku 12 years ago

Dear uncle kwasi,
Aint you pity for the poor Ghanaian dying people? Why do you still want to upset the Doctors? remember they still have control of our secret health conditions and can be worse working without proper focus.. ...
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Dear uncle kwasi,
Aint you pity for the poor Ghanaian dying people? Why do you still want to upset the Doctors? remember they still have control of our secret health conditions and can be worse working without proper focus....
Kwadzo 12 years ago

LET THE DOCTORS STRIKE FOREVER OR LEAVE FOR THE GREENER PASTURES. AFTERALL ALL-DIE-BE-DIE.

LET THE DOCTORS STRIKE FOREVER OR LEAVE FOR THE GREENER PASTURES. AFTERALL ALL-DIE-BE-DIE.
BANBOGU 12 years ago

The government is not thinking about Doctors and Ghanaians but their Political lives. Who long didnt John Mahama know the Doctors wanted to go on Strike and did he speak to them, NO. Dirty mouth should shutup and let the gove ...
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The government is not thinking about Doctors and Ghanaians but their Political lives. Who long didnt John Mahama know the Doctors wanted to go on Strike and did he speak to them, NO. Dirty mouth should shutup and let the government talk.
If a government can pay Woyome 52 million and a Doctor wants a better working pay and a Government cant help what do think the Doctor will do.
It doesnt matter who is the Government, when workers dont get their wages after they have work has every right to go on Strike.
NDC and John Mahama is been governing Ghana for 4 years plus yet cant pay the workers.
The government cant say the country has no money to pay its workers. what is the governments job, if not to manage the economy.
Primary school kid with a pen, writes to be corrected.
DOKORDOKOR 12 years ago

MAKE YOU PEEP EEN TEETH LIKE AGAHU KONTE.HE HATE JEWS KWASEA STUPID KWASI PRATT.HE LOVE ARABS AND HATE JEWS GOD GO PUNISH YOU.GO AND FIXED YOUR DENTAL FORMULAR THEY ARE VERY BAD.

MAKE YOU PEEP EEN TEETH LIKE AGAHU KONTE.HE HATE JEWS KWASEA STUPID KWASI PRATT.HE LOVE ARABS AND HATE JEWS GOD GO PUNISH YOU.GO AND FIXED YOUR DENTAL FORMULAR THEY ARE VERY BAD.
HASSAN RASTA 12 years ago

THE LAST STRIKE OF THE DOCTORS COST A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO WAS IN LABOR HER LIFE. SHE WAS SUFFERING WHILES NO DOCTOR TO CONTROL HER. SO SHE FELT FROM THE BED ON HER STOMACH AND DIED. THESE ARE SOME OF THE COST OF THE STRIKES NP ...
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THE LAST STRIKE OF THE DOCTORS COST A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO WAS IN LABOR HER LIFE. SHE WAS SUFFERING WHILES NO DOCTOR TO CONTROL HER. SO SHE FELT FROM THE BED ON HER STOMACH AND DIED. THESE ARE SOME OF THE COST OF THE STRIKES NPP WANT THE POOR GHANAIANS TO SUFFER FOR. BUT IT WILL END ON THEIR VARIOUS HOUSES.
DOKORDOKOR 12 years ago

KICK THIS DEAD BODY OUT OF THE CPP.

KICK THIS DEAD BODY OUT OF THE CPP.
Kwesi Pratts should know 12 years ago

I just want Kwesi Pratt to know the involvement of Iran in al qaida since 2001 and stop praising them. Dont invite al qaida to

TORONTO (AP) — Two men face a bail hearing Tuesday after their arrest on charges of plotting ...
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I just want Kwesi Pratt to know the involvement of Iran in al qaida since 2001 and stop praising them. Dont invite al qaida to

TORONTO (AP) — Two men face a bail hearing Tuesday after their arrest on charges of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, authorities said. The case has raised questions about Shiite-led Iran's murky relationship with the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.

Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, had "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida members in Iran, though there was no reason to think the planned attacks were state-sponsored, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said Monday. Police said the men did not get financial support from al-Qaida, but declined to provide more details.

"This is the first known al-Qaida planned attack that we've experienced in Canada," Superintendent Doug Best told a news conference. Officials in Washington and Toronto said it had no connections to last week's bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police said the men are not Canadian citizens and had been in Canada a "significant amount of time," but declined to say where they were from or why they were in the country.

The arrests in Montreal and Toronto bolstered allegations by some governments and experts of a relationship of convenience between Iran and al-Qaida.

Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran who is now a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said al-Qaida has had a clandestine presence in Iran since at least 2001 and that neither the terror group nor Tehran speak openly about it.

"The Iranian regime kept some of these elements under house arrest," he said in an email to The Associated Press. "Some probably operate covertly. AQ members often transit Iran traveling between hideouts in Pakistan and Iraq."

U.S. intelligence officials have long tracked limited al-Qaida activity inside Iran. Remnants of al-Qaida's so-called management council are still there, though they are usually kept under virtual house arrest by an Iranian regime suspicious of the Sunni-/Salafi-based militant movement. There are also a small number of financiers and facilitators who help move money, and sometimes weapons and people throughout the region from their base in Iran.

Last fall, the Obama administration offered up to $12 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of two al-Qaida leaders based in Iran. The U.S. State Department described them as key facilitators in sending extremists to Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Treasury Department also announced financial penalties against one of the men.

Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for the Iranian mission to the United Nations, said the terrorist network was not operating in Iran.

"Iran's position against this group is very clear and well known. (Al-Qaida) has no possibility to do any activity inside Iran or conduct any operation abroad from Iran's territory," Miryousefi said in a statement emailed to the AP late Monday. "We reject strongly and categorically any connection to this story."

The investigation surrounding the planned attack was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The attack "was definitely in the planning stage but not imminent," RCMP chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan said Monday. "We are alleging that these two individuals took steps and conducted activities to initiate a terrorist attack. They watched trains and railways."

Strachan said they were targeting a route, but did not say whether it was a cross border route. Best said the duo had been under investigation since last fall. Their bail hearing was scheduled in Toronto on Tuesday.

Via Rail said that "at no time" were passengers or members of the public in imminent danger. Via trains_Canada's equivalent of Amtrak passenger trains in the U.S. —carry nearly four million passengers annually.

In Washington, Amtrak president Joe Boardman said the Amtrak Police Department would continue to work with Canadian authorities to assist in the investigation. Via Rail and Amtrak jointly operate trains between Canada and the U.S.

Canada's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the arrests show that terrorism continues to be a real threat to Canada.

"Canada will not tolerate terrorist activity and we will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists or those who support terrorist activity," Toews said in the House of Commons.

U.S. Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, said in a statement praising Canadian authorities for the arrests, that the attack was intended "to cause significant loss of human life including New Yorkers."

Muhammad Robert Heft, who runs an outreach organization for Islamic converts, and Hussein Hamdani, a lawyer and longtime advocate in the Muslim community, said one of the suspects is Tunisian and the other is from the United Arab Emirates. Heft and Hamdani were part of a group of Muslim community leaders who were briefed by the RCMP ahead of Monday's announcement.

Authorities were tipped off by members of the Muslim community, Best said. Hamdani said the police said they were very thankful to Muslim community leaders for that.

"It was sort of a thank you moment," Hamdani said. "This tip, this lead, came from the Muslim community. But for the Muslim community we would not be talking about an arrest today. This is evidence and proof that the Canadian Muslim community, rather than a community that should be seen as suspect, is in fact partners for peace and here is the proof of it."

Hamdani said he did not know if anybody in the room for the briefing knew the suspects. He called the al-Qaida connection to the Shiite theocracy of Iran "very strange.

He noted that police said al-Qaida didn't provide material support and that it was more guidance.

"What does that mean exactly?" Hamdani wondered. "It could be words of support or inspiration. It could be 'Here's the idea I think you should use it.'"

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil liberties organization, planned to hold a news conference in Toronto Tuesday afternoon to comment on the terror-related arrests.

A spokeswoman for the University of Sherbrooke near Montreal said Esseghaier studied there in 2008-2009. More recently, he has been doing doctoral research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, a spokeswoman at the training university confirmed.

Julie Martineau, a spokeswoman at the research institute, said Esseghaier began working at the center just outside Montreal in 2010 and was pursuing a Ph.D. in nanotechnology.

"We are, of course, very surprised," she said.

A LinkedIn page showing a man with Esseghaier's name and academic background said he helped author a number of biology research papers, including on HIV and cancer detection. The page says he was a student in Tunisia before moving to Canada in the summer of 2008.

The page carries a photo of a black flag inscribed with the Muslim declaration of faith: "There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet." The same flag was used by al-Qaida in Irag and then started being used by ultraconservative Islamic groups in Egypt, Tunisia, Mali and elsewhere across the region.

In Markham, Ontario, north of Toronto, police tape cordoned off half of a duplex, with officers remaining at the scene well into the night. Sanjay Chaudhary, who lives in the other half of the duplex with his family, said the RCMP questioned him about his neighbor Jaser, asking whether he knew him or spoke to him often.

Chaudhary said he didn't know his neighbor or the woman he believes is the man's wife but added "every day, we see them going out."

Monday's raid on the house stunned Chaudhary, who said the neighborhood is otherwise "peaceful."

The arrests came just a few months after two Canadians were discovered among militants killed in a terrorist siege at a gas plant in Algeria. At least 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed in the siege, including Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, two high school friends from London, Ontario.

In 2006, Canadian police foiled the so-called Toronto 18 home grown plot to set off bombs outside Toronto's Stock Exchange, a building housing Canada's spy agency and a military base. The goal was to scare Canada into removing its troops from Afghanistan. The arrests made international headlines and heightened fears in a country where many people thought they were relatively immune from terrorist strikes.

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Associated Press writers Benjamin Shingler in Montreal, Peter James Spielmann and Maria Sanminiatelli in New York, and Pete Yost and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this story.
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BRING GHANA'S MONEY NOW.. 12 years ago

MAHAMA WHERE IS WAYOME'S MONEY???

MAHAMA WHERE IS WAYOME'S MONEY???
Kwesi Pratts should know 12 years ago

I just want Kwesi Pratt to know the involvement of Iran in al qaida since 2001 and stop praising them. Dont invite al qaida to Ghana.

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I just want Kwesi Pratt to know the involvement of Iran in al qaida since 2001 and stop praising them. Dont invite al qaida to Ghana.

TORONTO (AP) — Two men face a bail hearing Tuesday after their arrest on charges of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, authorities said. The case has raised questions about Shiite-led Iran's murky relationship with the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.

Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, had "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida members in Iran, though there was no reason to think the planned attacks were state-sponsored, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said Monday. Police said the men did not get financial support from al-Qaida, but declined to provide more details.

"This is the first known al-Qaida planned attack that we've experienced in Canada," Superintendent Doug Best told a news conference. Officials in Washington and Toronto said it had no connections to last week's bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police said the men are not Canadian citizens and had been in Canada a "significant amount of time," but declined to say where they were from or why they were in the country.

The arrests in Montreal and Toronto bolstered allegations by some governments and experts of a relationship of convenience between Iran and al-Qaida.

Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran who is now a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said al-Qaida has had a clandestine presence in Iran since at least 2001 and that neither the terror group nor Tehran speak openly about it.

"The Iranian regime kept some of these elements under house arrest," he said in an email to The Associated Press. "Some probably operate covertly. AQ members often transit Iran traveling between hideouts in Pakistan and Iraq."

U.S. intelligence officials have long tracked limited al-Qaida activity inside Iran. Remnants of al-Qaida's so-called management council are still there, though they are usually kept under virtual house arrest by an Iranian regime suspicious of the Sunni-/Salafi-based militant movement. There are also a small number of financiers and facilitators who help move money, and sometimes weapons and people throughout the region from their base in Iran.

Last fall, the Obama administration offered up to $12 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of two al-Qaida leaders based in Iran. The U.S. State Department described them as key facilitators in sending extremists to Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Treasury Department also announced financial penalties against one of the men.

Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for the Iranian mission to the United Nations, said the terrorist network was not operating in Iran.

"Iran's position against this group is very clear and well known. (Al-Qaida) has no possibility to do any activity inside Iran or conduct any operation abroad from Iran's territory," Miryousefi said in a statement emailed to the AP late Monday. "We reject strongly and categorically any connection to this story."

The investigation surrounding the planned attack was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The attack "was definitely in the planning stage but not imminent," RCMP chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan said Monday. "We are alleging that these two individuals took steps and conducted activities to initiate a terrorist attack. They watched trains and railways."

Strachan said they were targeting a route, but did not say whether it was a cross border route. Best said the duo had been under investigation since last fall. Their bail hearing was scheduled in Toronto on Tuesday.

Via Rail said that "at no time" were passengers or members of the public in imminent danger. Via trains_Canada's equivalent of Amtrak passenger trains in the U.S. —carry nearly four million passengers annually.

In Washington, Amtrak president Joe Boardman said the Amtrak Police Department would continue to work with Canadian authorities to assist in the investigation. Via Rail and Amtrak jointly operate trains between Canada and the U.S.

Canada's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the arrests show that terrorism continues to be a real threat to Canada.

"Canada will not tolerate terrorist activity and we will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists or those who support terrorist activity," Toews said in the House of Commons.

U.S. Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, said in a statement praising Canadian authorities for the arrests, that the attack was intended "to cause significant loss of human life including New Yorkers."

Muhammad Robert Heft, who runs an outreach organization for Islamic converts, and Hussein Hamdani, a lawyer and longtime advocate in the Muslim community, said one of the suspects is Tunisian and the other is from the United Arab Emirates. Heft and Hamdani were part of a group of Muslim community leaders who were briefed by the RCMP ahead of Monday's announcement.

Authorities were tipped off by members of the Muslim community, Best said. Hamdani said the police said they were very thankful to Muslim community leaders for that.

"It was sort of a thank you moment," Hamdani said. "This tip, this lead, came from the Muslim community. But for the Muslim community we would not be talking about an arrest today. This is evidence and proof that the Canadian Muslim community, rather than a community that should be seen as suspect, is in fact partners for peace and here is the proof of it."

Hamdani said he did not know if anybody in the room for the briefing knew the suspects. He called the al-Qaida connection to the Shiite theocracy of Iran "very strange.

He noted that police said al-Qaida didn't provide material support and that it was more guidance.

"What does that mean exactly?" Hamdani wondered. "It could be words of support or inspiration. It could be 'Here's the idea I think you should use it.'"

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil liberties organization, planned to hold a news conference in Toronto Tuesday afternoon to comment on the terror-related arrests.

A spokeswoman for the University of Sherbrooke near Montreal said Esseghaier studied there in 2008-2009. More recently, he has been doing doctoral research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, a spokeswoman at the training university confirmed.

Julie Martineau, a spokeswoman at the research institute, said Esseghaier began working at the center just outside Montreal in 2010 and was pursuing a Ph.D. in nanotechnology.

"We are, of course, very surprised," she said.

A LinkedIn page showing a man with Esseghaier's name and academic background said he helped author a number of biology research papers, including on HIV and cancer detection. The page says he was a student in Tunisia before moving to Canada in the summer of 2008.

The page carries a photo of a black flag inscribed with the Muslim declaration of faith: "There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet." The same flag was used by al-Qaida in Irag and then started being used by ultraconservative Islamic groups in Egypt, Tunisia, Mali and elsewhere across the region.

In Markham, Ontario, north of Toronto, police tape cordoned off half of a duplex, with officers remaining at the scene well into the night. Sanjay Chaudhary, who lives in the other half of the duplex with his family, said the RCMP questioned him about his neighbor Jaser, asking whether he knew him or spoke to him often.

Chaudhary said he didn't know his neighbor or the woman he believes is the man's wife but added "every day, we see them going out."

Monday's raid on the house stunned Chaudhary, who said the neighborhood is otherwise "peaceful."

The arrests came just a few months after two Canadians were discovered among militants killed in a terrorist siege at a gas plant in Algeria. At least 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed in the siege, including Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, two high school friends from London, Ontario.

In 2006, Canadian police foiled the so-called Toronto 18 home grown plot to set off bombs outside Toronto's Stock Exchange, a building housing Canada's spy agency and a military base. The goal was to scare Canada into removing its troops from Afghanistan. The arrests made international headlines and heightened fears in a country where many people thought they were relatively immune from terrorist strikes.

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Associated Press writers Benjamin Shingler in Montreal, Peter James Spielmann and Maria Sanminiatelli in New York, and Pete Yost and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this story.
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Joe ballack UK 12 years ago

Pratt is a traitor

Pratt is a traitor
MOHAMMED 12 years ago

It's sad to see people in Ghana who wants to become Doctors simply because of money. Whereby here in Europe, people tend to become Doctors in order to save lives. In Africa, especially Ghana, we don't respect ourselves. This ...
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It's sad to see people in Ghana who wants to become Doctors simply because of money. Whereby here in Europe, people tend to become Doctors in order to save lives. In Africa, especially Ghana, we don't respect ourselves. This is a place where Doctors asked money before they examine you. It is very, very sad and pathetic for Ghanaians in general.
WOYOMEH PULLED-UP A HIEST 12 years ago

GHANAIANS WERE BLACLMAILED BY THE MANY GOVENMENT CORRUPTION

GHANAIANS WERE BLACLMAILED BY THE MANY GOVENMENT CORRUPTION
FIIFI 12 years ago

Infact these doctors are inconsidrate and you npp stupid supporters on this net are behind them. Just think before you write. What Pratt is saying does not call for any insult. Have you thought about your family backgound bef ...
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Infact these doctors are inconsidrate and you npp stupid supporters on this net are behind them. Just think before you write. What Pratt is saying does not call for any insult. Have you thought about your family backgound before writing.
CORRUPT-NDC BUNCH 12 years ago

THIS GOVERNMENT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO CORRUPT TO HIGH -HAVEN

THIS GOVERNMENT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO CORRUPT TO HIGH -HAVEN
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

Make noise because your pocket has been lined whilst majority of Ghanaians are suffering!You can`t be serious!Why do you support a cheating Gov`t?The doctors know that this incompetent Gov`t is going to fail them once more!

Make noise because your pocket has been lined whilst majority of Ghanaians are suffering!You can`t be serious!Why do you support a cheating Gov`t?The doctors know that this incompetent Gov`t is going to fail them once more!
Joe Turkey 12 years ago

Sounds as if doctors in Ghana are some sort of volunteers, who should be working for the government to have people like Kesi Pratt get adequate propaganda funds.

Sounds as if doctors in Ghana are some sort of volunteers, who should be working for the government to have people like Kesi Pratt get adequate propaganda funds.
Good citizen 12 years ago

Kwesi are you considerate about Ghanaians each time you go for your $20,000 at the end of the month from the NDC government for lying and throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians at radio stations for them? Though majority of ...
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Kwesi are you considerate about Ghanaians each time you go for your $20,000 at the end of the month from the NDC government for lying and throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians at radio stations for them? Though majority of Ghanaians live below the poverty line of less than $1 a day.
THEO 12 years ago

GOOD MAN WITH GOOD SENSE

GOOD MAN WITH GOOD SENSE
Revital 12 years ago

I want to know whether the so called men of God in Ghana who claim they care and have compassion for the poor are asleep or pretending to be asleep? This is the moment when their voices should be heard whether collectively or ...
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I want to know whether the so called men of God in Ghana who claim they care and have compassion for the poor are asleep or pretending to be asleep? This is the moment when their voices should be heard whether collectively or individually yet they are quiet and Kwesi Pratt who appear not be a church goer but has compassion for the poor is speaking for the poor with petitionary vehemence, with due apologies to Shakespeare. Where are the men of God? Where is the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church? Kwesi has shown he cares for the poor. Do you?
DOE 12 years ago

MR PRATT CAN YOU MAKE THIS STATEMENT WITHOUT USING YOU HANDS IT WILL MARTUALY. WHY EVERTIME A GHANAIAN IS TALKING HE OR SHE HAS TO USE HANDS OR POINT A FINGER

MR PRATT CAN YOU MAKE THIS STATEMENT WITHOUT USING YOU HANDS IT WILL MARTUALY. WHY EVERTIME A GHANAIAN IS TALKING HE OR SHE HAS TO USE HANDS OR POINT A FINGER
ab 12 years ago

they forget what they swear before been doctor

they forget what they swear before been doctor
OSEI LOND 12 years ago

INFACT I HAVE SEEN THAT ANYONE COMMENTING AGAINST THE STRIKING DOCS IS NTAFOR SO IT IS TRUTH THAT NTAFOR IS BRAINLESS WHEN THESE DOCS WERE SPENDING THEIR TIME IN SCHOOLING THESE NTAFOR LIKE HASSAN RASTA WERE SLEEPING WITH COW ...
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INFACT I HAVE SEEN THAT ANYONE COMMENTING AGAINST THE STRIKING DOCS IS NTAFOR SO IT IS TRUTH THAT NTAFOR IS BRAINLESS WHEN THESE DOCS WERE SPENDING THEIR TIME IN SCHOOLING THESE NTAFOR LIKE HASSAN RASTA WERE SLEEPING WITH COWS AND GOATS THEIR FATHERS WERE CARRYING TOILETS IN KUMASI THEIR BULL JD HAS PAY EXGRA TO THESE USELESS MP HE DONT HAVE COMMON SENSE TO PAY THE DOC BUT NOW ALL ANIMALS NTAFOR WONT THE DOCS TO WORK FOR FREE GO SELL YOUR COWS AND PAY THE DOCS THEY WILL GO TO WORK BRAINLESS NTAFOR
atik 12 years ago

the wishes of NPP are materializing to pave the way for them to come to power. NPP is behind it that is why none of them is talking to cool the tempers of the doctors. so don't surprise

the wishes of NPP are materializing to pave the way for them to come to power. NPP is behind it that is why none of them is talking to cool the tempers of the doctors. so don't surprise
Ohene,,, 12 years ago

If they are behind,,, are they also behind non paying doctors,,,,

If they are behind,,, are they also behind non paying doctors,,,,
messa 12 years ago

SO STOP FLAPING YOUR GUMS WITH NONSENSE YOU VILLGE BOY

SO STOP FLAPING YOUR GUMS WITH NONSENSE YOU VILLGE BOY
GGK 12 years ago

Is all politics!!!!!! Doctors are helping to make ghana ungovernable.Politics!!!!!!~~

Is all politics!!!!!! Doctors are helping to make ghana ungovernable.Politics!!!!!!~~
kk 12 years ago

Now Mr kwesi Pratt is trying to get his job back. Because he has seen that now in Ghana each one is thinking of his own stomach

Now Mr kwesi Pratt is trying to get his job back. Because he has seen that now in Ghana each one is thinking of his own stomach
truth 12 years ago

Doctors are killing our relatives by not attending to them now. We must start killing doctors or kidnapping their children and they will learn to be kind to our sick population. Let us kidnap their children and ask for huge s ...
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Doctors are killing our relatives by not attending to them now. We must start killing doctors or kidnapping their children and they will learn to be kind to our sick population. Let us kidnap their children and ask for huge sums of money from them after the government has struggled to pay them. I am serious the doctors are wicked. Emergency cases are not attended to in ghana? This will surprise the whole world tell me has it happened anywhere in the world? Let the factory workers go on strike and not you doctors, pharmacists, nurses.
Boat 12 years ago

Ever since they threatened him he has softened his stance, naniama.

Ever since they threatened him he has softened his stance, naniama.
kofi asnte 12 years ago

the leader of the medical association is a pure ashanti and he has vowed to bring the government down,dont you know the ashantis

the leader of the medical association is a pure ashanti and he has vowed to bring the government down,dont you know the ashantis
the truth 12 years ago

why are you sooo stupid??????

why are you sooo stupid??????
JJ 12 years ago

DONT PUSH THIS TRIBAL LINES. WE NEED TO BE TOLERANT. AFTERALL WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE. LETS JUST PRAY THAT THESE STRIKES END SOON TO SAVE LIVES. DOCTORS PLEASE WE BEG YOU.

DONT PUSH THIS TRIBAL LINES. WE NEED TO BE TOLERANT. AFTERALL WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE. LETS JUST PRAY THAT THESE STRIKES END SOON TO SAVE LIVES. DOCTORS PLEASE WE BEG YOU.
AMADI SANYARIGA 12 years ago

GHANA SHOULD PRODUCE MORE DOCTORS AND AVOID THIS CONFRONTATION W1TH DOCTORS EVERY YEAR.

GHANA SHOULD PRODUCE MORE DOCTORS AND AVOID THIS CONFRONTATION W1TH DOCTORS EVERY YEAR.
HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 12 years ago

THESE KILLER 'DOCTORS' WILL SOON KNOW THEIR LEVELS!!

THESE KILLER 'DOCTORS' WILL SOON KNOW THEIR LEVELS!!
KUKRUDU 12 years ago

Kwesi Pratt MUT be an absolute PRATT!!!! Compare Doctors' pay to those of these BRIBE TAKING MPs and you will soon see why a Doctor has every right to strike!!!

Kwesi Pratt MUT be an absolute PRATT!!!! Compare Doctors' pay to those of these BRIBE TAKING MPs and you will soon see why a Doctor has every right to strike!!!
FATI, BELGIUM 12 years ago

YOU USE THE GOVERMENT HOSPITALS EQUIPMENT FOR PRIVATE WORK, PERFORM BACK STREET ABORTIONS,CHARGE ILLIGAL FEES YET YOU HOLD THE SAME GOVT WITHOUT CONSEDRATION.Do they teach greed and wickidness in medical school?

YOU USE THE GOVERMENT HOSPITALS EQUIPMENT FOR PRIVATE WORK, PERFORM BACK STREET ABORTIONS,CHARGE ILLIGAL FEES YET YOU HOLD THE SAME GOVT WITHOUT CONSEDRATION.Do they teach greed and wickidness in medical school?
fo kofi 12 years ago

Who are we? talk for yourself as some Ghanaians also think that the NDC government has been reckless in spending good money on useless activities thus denying payment of legitimate monies to these hard working doctors who de ...
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Who are we? talk for yourself as some Ghanaians also think that the NDC government has been reckless in spending good money on useless activities thus denying payment of legitimate monies to these hard working doctors who deserve it!
Naijaman 12 years ago

If a fish prays for the pond in which it live to dry up, it wil also die. NPP members will also suffer the consequences of this evil strikes.

If a fish prays for the pond in which it live to dry up, it wil also die. NPP members will also suffer the consequences of this evil strikes.
HAFIS ATTA IBRAIMA 12 years ago

THIS STOMACH JOURNALIST IS NOT HELPING THE SITUATION IN GHANA. EVEN YOU STUPID FOOL ARE GETTING FREE MONEY FROM NDC FOR PROPAGANDA HOW MUCH MEDICAL DOCTORS.

THIS STOMACH JOURNALIST IS NOT HELPING THE SITUATION IN GHANA. EVEN YOU STUPID FOOL ARE GETTING FREE MONEY FROM NDC FOR PROPAGANDA HOW MUCH MEDICAL DOCTORS.
Cobbyosei 12 years ago

Kwasi Patt everybody know you are on NDC payroll so hut your 'Fukin' mouth.

Kwasi Patt everybody know you are on NDC payroll so hut your 'Fukin' mouth.
Tonga Tonga 12 years ago

Mahama is a millionaire and how would he feel if he does not get his salary for over a year? No wonder our doctors and nurses are shifting into private practice or going abroad where their salaries are paid on time.

Mahama is a millionaire and how would he feel if he does not get his salary for over a year? No wonder our doctors and nurses are shifting into private practice or going abroad where their salaries are paid on time.
Cobbyosei 12 years ago

Shut your 'Fukin'mouth Akwasi Pratt

Shut your 'Fukin'mouth Akwasi Pratt
Baby Dollar 12 years ago

The strike must end. We appeal to the doctors please.I lost my husband when they one went on strike.Please help the poor

The strike must end. We appeal to the doctors please.I lost my husband when they one went on strike.Please help the poor
Hazor 12 years ago

Doctors to tell this good for nothing noise making Kwasi Pratt that if he feel sick he should not come them for cure but to the government .it looks like Kwasi Pratt has nkonfem brains in his head.A man who has put his own li ...
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Doctors to tell this good for nothing noise making Kwasi Pratt that if he feel sick he should not come them for cure but to the government .it looks like Kwasi Pratt has nkonfem brains in his head.A man who has put his own life in jeopardy.Wise man indeed.
OKPONGLO 12 years ago

Just cant understand why we continue as a people or ghanaians and allow this Stupid kwesi pratt to conment on national issues.

Just cant understand why we continue as a people or ghanaians and allow this Stupid kwesi pratt to conment on national issues.
Kwame 12 years ago

the doctors as well as politicians are acting beyond imagination and reasoning. how can parliament share all GHANA'S money among themselves and nothing left to pay doctors? how can doctors swear to save lives yet don't care t ...
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the doctors as well as politicians are acting beyond imagination and reasoning. how can parliament share all GHANA'S money among themselves and nothing left to pay doctors? how can doctors swear to save lives yet don't care to see people die because they can not wait for five days to have their claims addressed?

somebody tell me why these insensitive people are in the helm of affairs of this country
KOOKZI 12 years ago

THE PRESIDENT HAS GOT TO BE TOUGH ON THESE HARDHEARTED DOCTORS BY DENYING THEM SALARY FOR AS LONG AS THEY ARE ON STRIKE AND SUMMARILY DISMISS AND PROSECUTE THEM IF THEY FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE LAND

THE PRESIDENT HAS GOT TO BE TOUGH ON THESE HARDHEARTED DOCTORS BY DENYING THEM SALARY FOR AS LONG AS THEY ARE ON STRIKE AND SUMMARILY DISMISS AND PROSECUTE THEM IF THEY FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE LAND
Nantwi,BSEd,MSEd(ece),MSEd(sas) 12 years ago

Pay the Doctors their money and stop this propaganda.Some Ghanaians may be fools but not all ghanaians are fools.

Pay the Doctors their money and stop this propaganda.Some Ghanaians may be fools but not all ghanaians are fools.
JH-New York City 12 years ago

Industrial action(strike) is one of the reasons why I think Ghana should not consider building nuclear power to generate electricity in abundance of free flow of wind in many areas of the country.Other reasons are funding and ...
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Industrial action(strike) is one of the reasons why I think Ghana should not consider building nuclear power to generate electricity in abundance of free flow of wind in many areas of the country.Other reasons are funding and,the duration of time.
I wonder why Ghana should waste her time on a project which it does not have the money and takes about 8 years to build while the Country is in emergency need of electricity. I see the decision as another misplaced priority and waste of tax payers funds.Don't make a mistake.I'm not saying we should never build nuclear energy to produce pharmaceuticals.But not electricity.
Wind Turbine is a source that doesn't burn polluting fossil fuels.so wind Turbine is clean,green,and safe source to generate electricity .A single turbine can generate enough electricity to power about 980 to 1020 homes.Most of the time a Wind turbine works automatically.Its radio link to a local control station shows wind strength,how much electricity is being made etc etc.
Nana Asare 12 years ago

Pratt THE HYPOCRATE AGAIN, YOU WISH YOU HAD A NEPHEW WHO IS A DOCTOR, YOU WILL THANK YOUR GOD.

Pratt THE HYPOCRATE AGAIN, YOU WISH YOU HAD A NEPHEW WHO IS A DOCTOR, YOU WILL THANK YOUR GOD.
Kwame 12 years ago

Doctors want to stage a coup.

Doctors want to stage a coup.
Ohene,,, 12 years ago

Ur doctores are gready,,,,,what about ur politcians

Ur doctores are gready,,,,,what about ur politcians
DANIEL 12 years ago

DOCTORS IAM PLEADING WITH YOU. MONEY CAN NOT BUY LIFE ARE NOT FEARING PEOPLE

DOCTORS IAM PLEADING WITH YOU. MONEY CAN NOT BUY LIFE ARE NOT FEARING PEOPLE
Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

GOVMNT STEALING MONEY IN THEIR OWN EYES

GOVMNT STEALING MONEY IN THEIR OWN EYES
Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

PAY THEM INSTEAD OF WAYOME

PAY THEM INSTEAD OF WAYOME
JUJUMAN 12 years ago

SACK THEM ALL AND IMPORT 2000 DOCS FORM CUBA

SACK THEM ALL AND IMPORT 2000 DOCS FORM CUBA
kb 12 years ago

Ashantis tribal sentiment on the rise,all that Doctors are doing is part of NPP's game to make President Mahama's government looks so badu to the eyes of Ghanaian public.What ever is happening in Ghana now can be fix.If the N ...
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Ashantis tribal sentiment on the rise,all that Doctors are doing is part of NPP's game to make President Mahama's government looks so badu to the eyes of Ghanaian public.What ever is happening in Ghana now can be fix.If the Npp and their Ashanti elite want to stir up trouble,I believe it lead the country into a big mess.We all are ware what is going on.
JUJUMAN 12 years ago

SACK THEM ALL AND IMPORT 2000 DOCS FROM CUBA

SACK THEM ALL AND IMPORT 2000 DOCS FROM CUBA
lobos 12 years ago

why will the doctor blackmail the goverment? Pratt should no that something is not going on well so everybody want to go on strike because that is the only language the
government do hear. am not in support of the strike ac ...
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why will the doctor blackmail the goverment? Pratt should no that something is not going on well so everybody want to go on strike because that is the only language the
government do hear. am not in support of the strike actions but i think the NLC and the government can do better on this issues
Nana 12 years ago

Dear Sir/Madam, Pratt does not prevent Doctors from going on strike. He wants the Doctors to respect the deadline they agreed upon with the government. It is simple like that.

Pratt is a full Ghanaian and he has his word t ...
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Dear Sir/Madam, Pratt does not prevent Doctors from going on strike. He wants the Doctors to respect the deadline they agreed upon with the government. It is simple like that.

Pratt is a full Ghanaian and he has his word to say. Moreover, he is an educated talented and civilized person. He at least writes and express himself on sensitive issues. What about those who just insult and always see devils and evils everywhere but not where their own political leaders are?
NII LARTYEY NARTEY 12 years ago

I can't bring myself to believe how stupid and politically ignorant most Ghanaians have become. As for Kwesi Pratt, he's long sold his conscience and can not be trusted.

How do we have a government with budget deficit of 8 ...
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I can't bring myself to believe how stupid and politically ignorant most Ghanaians have become. As for Kwesi Pratt, he's long sold his conscience and can not be trusted.

How do we have a government with budget deficit of 8.7 million Cedis which includes non existing guinea fowls and afforestation projects at dry season yet have no money to pay our hard working Doctors when a naughty braggart brat idiot is paid a huge sum of 51 million dollars for no work done what so ever for the country?

How does any sensible thinking Ghanaian blame peaceful strikes by Doctors and other civil service personnel exercising their constitutional rights to demand their fair share of the national cake they have discipline themselves to trained and work for?

Those misconstrued like minded Kwasi Pratt and his hypocrite criminally material centered, fake socialist associates should rather question the credibilities of the Mahama led guinea fowl "woyomenized" unkept crooks and sychophant politicians, some with no any enviable academic knowledge at all, yet unbelievably live big on the poor tax payer money with huge incentives whilst our brilliant Doctors who even work without proper clinical provisions and tools, eventually go home with absolutely nothing.

The annoyingly monkey the work baboon de chop system must stop else, we will wake up one day and find no Doctor here to cure our sick in such derogatory disrespectful conditions.

Ghana today, have become a safe havens for criminals fronting as politicians just as fake crooks practicing as pastors.
KNYC (USMC) 12 years ago

Well said. There are too many fools in position of interest. As you said "Ghana today, have become a safe havens for criminals fronting as politicians just as fake crooks practing as pastors." This is going to bring the count ...
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Well said. There are too many fools in position of interest. As you said "Ghana today, have become a safe havens for criminals fronting as politicians just as fake crooks practing as pastors." This is going to bring the country down.
TOHUGU 12 years ago

It is very sad the way these SHAMELESS,HEARTLESS & UNGRATEFUL DOCTORS are behaving. These are individuals who received free training in the country's Medical schools.It is really a big shame.
In America, medical students hav ...
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It is very sad the way these SHAMELESS,HEARTLESS & UNGRATEFUL DOCTORS are behaving. These are individuals who received free training in the country's Medical schools.It is really a big shame.
In America, medical students have to borrow a lot of money to pay for their education. Almost all the medical doctors in the US graduate from Medical school owing colossal amount of debt to the bank-in the 100s of thousand of US dollars. It is high time these Doctors are made to cough up all the monies the nation invested in their education. They are so SHAMELESSLY CALLOUS,HEARTLESSLY WICKED AND UNGRATEFULLY SELFISH! SHAME ON THEM!!!!!!!!!!!
citizen 12 years ago

Doctors are not acting professional. John mahama should kicked them all out and bring in international doctors who are even more experienced and serious at work

Doctors are not acting professional. John mahama should kicked them all out and bring in international doctors who are even more experienced and serious at work
STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 12 years ago

Their attitude now is more than blackmail.
As much as we respect the noble profession of Doctors and appreciate their contribution to maintenance of healthy human resource for the nation’s development, it gets to a point w ...
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Their attitude now is more than blackmail.
As much as we respect the noble profession of Doctors and appreciate their contribution to maintenance of healthy human resource for the nation’s development, it gets to a point where their attitude begin to be a nuisance just as it has now gotten to the bream.
They are now behaving like an opposition political party. It is only in Ghana that they can boast with their certificates not valued anywhere; even in Togo. Not to talk about the USA, Europe, Asia, UAA,etc. These Doctors have to re-train for at least 4 years in US (Residency)and further 2 or 3 years to specialize(fellowship); some even fail woefully!
When Doctors who benefited from tax payers’ money descend so low in thought, ethics and professionalism to use late payment of arrears (not even salaries) time-line disagreement to punish a core group of people whose money helped train them (Tax payers), their commitment to the respected profession need be questioned. What on earth do they expect, a job well done praise? Only their few remote controllers, most of whom are ignorant, heartless and selfish like those striking Doctors would shower them with praise; one I’ll describe as filthy praise.
Choosing immediate arrears payment in full over precious lives? Unbelievable! Now they are withdrawing emergency services even before the deadline they agreed on for their problems to be solved.The public now know they would be paid at all cost in 3 installments. They are at the verge of losing their status and sympathy in the eyes of the public. Haven taken the pain to look into the services they render the citizenry, I see no extraordinary service that merit extra ordinary praise. In the event they get close to providing extraordinary service, they woefully fail. An example among many that have been swept under the carpet without law suit is the recent conjoined twin’s incident. Their constant referral of patients abroad for treatment or home to slowly die attests to the above fact. These normally happens when their expertise are needed the most.
What most of them know how to treat are the few diseases which the senior nurses and many of the nursing staffs and health officers could easily handle successfully without any panic. Malaria, typhoid and some communicable diseases are some examples.
Their absence therefore would not make Ghana collapse. What even make their strike action a no-brainer is the fact that most health facilities readily available to most communities are privately or missionary owned. My advice to them is to stop vigorously advertising their ignorance, selfishness, in-humane behaviors and partisan political stupidity.
While their counterparts in various parts of the world are using their medical professional associations to brainstorm how to independently as a body work hard to enrich their pensions with pragmatic modern financial ideas without depending on Government, as well as researching feverishly to save lives they (GMA) on the other hand are feverishly dancing to partisan political tunes and rhythms to kill lives.
TOHUGU 12 years ago

I couldn't have written it this great. I only pray that the so-called Dr. Serebour and his hard-hearted co-horts will read it. Thank you so much for your insightfulness.

I couldn't have written it this great. I only pray that the so-called Dr. Serebour and his hard-hearted co-horts will read it. Thank you so much for your insightfulness.
JH-New York City 12 years ago

What do these Ghanaian medical Drs want?.
Govt owes u people one yr salary arrears,right?.Govt is prepared to pay u in 3 quarterly installment, u say no,give me all at one goal.What sort of behavior is that ?.The important i ...
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What do these Ghanaian medical Drs want?.
Govt owes u people one yr salary arrears,right?.Govt is prepared to pay u in 3 quarterly installment, u say no,give me all at one goal.What sort of behavior is that ?.The important issue is at the end of the day,your arrears would be fully paid.So I do not see the needs for them to go on strike unless there's a diabolical under current and intentions.
Two things are crystal clear on the walls.Either its a political ploy to embarrass the sitting President and make the Country ungovernable,or,its excessive greedyness and lack of common sense on the parts of the Drs.
Medical doctors whom considers their backpay more important than life's of their patients and mankind.Drs whom are on strike but receives his full salary at the end of the month.So,what spices of specimen of human beings is the Ghanaian medical dr. Wicked,cruel,diabolic and heartless doctors. Shame to U all.Money before the lifes of others doctors.
KNYC (USMC) 12 years ago

Fuck face how do you pay your rent? You live in NYC and you are talking like a fool. Go fuck ur self.

Fuck face how do you pay your rent? You live in NYC and you are talking like a fool. Go fuck ur self.
JH-New York City 12 years ago

Any person who analyze what I said well,would know that I'm not talking foolishly but sensibly.Don't the drs receive their full pay while on a strike?.Is the Mahama govt refusing to pay them thier salary arrears?.What's the p ...
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Any person who analyze what I said well,would know that I'm not talking foolishly but sensibly.Don't the drs receive their full pay while on a strike?.Is the Mahama govt refusing to pay them thier salary arrears?.What's the problem here is the lost of human lifes which the drs cannot bring back to life after they're paid,though.That's one reason drs have to reconsider their cruelty.Bcos they drs would be paid,anyway.
Yes,I live in New York City.And is interesting to know that where human life is involved,not such heartless and inhuman behavior is tolerated or allowed anywhere in US.The people are so nice and warm.take care,guys.
JH-New York City 12 years ago

Any person who analyze what I said well,would know that I'm not talking foolishly but sensibly.Don't the drs receive their full pay while on a strike?.Is the Mahama govt refusing to pay them thier salary arrears?.What's the p ...
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Any person who analyze what I said well,would know that I'm not talking foolishly but sensibly.Don't the drs receive their full pay while on a strike?.Is the Mahama govt refusing to pay them thier salary arrears?.What's the problem here is the lost of human lifes which the drs cannot bring back to life after they're paid,though.That's one reason drs have to reconsider their cruelty.Bcos they drs would be paid,anyway.
Yes,I live in New York City.And is interesting to know that where human life is involved,not such heartless and inhuman behavior is tolerated or allowed anywhere in US.The people are so nice and warm.take care,guys.
Whatever 12 years ago

Anybody who neglect human beings to die senselessly in hospitals because he wants his pension issue sorted out NEED DELIVERANCE.

Anybody who neglect human beings to die senselessly in hospitals because he wants his pension issue sorted out NEED DELIVERANCE.
sam (usa) 12 years ago

All the doctors and teachers know is strike strike strike.Almost every other year.By the way its a way of diverting patients to their private clinics.where they can charge Ghanaians exorbitant fees.

All the doctors and teachers know is strike strike strike.Almost every other year.By the way its a way of diverting patients to their private clinics.where they can charge Ghanaians exorbitant fees.

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