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GMA parries Health Minister’s threats and intimidation

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  • CHIEF 8 years ago

    doctors need to be considerate.we just cant continue like that

  • ATSU, HO 8 years ago

    NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IF PEOPLE MUST DIE B4 YOU GET IT THEN YOUR ACTION CANNOPT BE JUSTIFIED. DRS PLEASE GO BACK TO WORK AND RESPECT THE LAWS OF THE NATION

  • The African Patriot 8 years ago

    You can write whatever you like, but the Drs must stay resolute in order to reach their goals for also the next generation. Black man thinking is also to give their best for the foreigners but never for their selves. It is ab ...
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  • Gbewaa 8 years ago

    Waa look!

    They treat Cuban doctors as humans with dignity, and expect their own kind to work under conditions of slavery and involuntary servitude.

    GFA treated Kwesi Appian like that. Now an Israeli Avram Grant is payin ...
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  • facts 8 years ago

    Mahama and his party members are only acting on emotions when the lives of innocent ghanaians are at stake. We deserves more than this.

  • abena-kwabena 8 years ago

    Politicians, their friends and family, kings, queens and important personalities are enjoying, the rest including doctors and teachers in severe poverty, especially with the cedi 30% lower in value.

  • Skympy 8 years ago

    Define enjoying. And how much are you paid now? Please you can quit your job and run for political office. Addison thought it was easy, he got 23 votes. You think its easy to be a politician. Stop this comparison crap and go ...
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  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Take it easy bro'. It is not our dear country Ghana, that is hopeless. If you are a Ghanaian, Im sure that in your more sober moments, you will come to appreciate the fact that Ghana is actually one of the most gifted locatio ...
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  • GBEWAA 8 years ago

    SHABI,

    REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CUBAN HEALTH SERVICES, I CAN'T SEE CUBA ALLOWING A BLACK AFRICAN, LET ALONE A BLACK GHANAIAN, TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THEIR COUNTRY CUBA.

    YOU MAY GO THROUGH A LOT OF FRUSTRATING ...
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  • GBEWAA 8 years ago

    FORGET ABOUT THEIR DECEPTIVE FACADES THEY PUT UP WHEN THEY COME TO BLACK AFRICA.

  • Help me 8 years ago

    I find it strange that people are in support of a wicked, evil infected body (GMA) and encouraging them to sit by and watch human lives destroyed. I think some of you are unbelievers , thus accounts for the encouragement you ...
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  • diaporian 8 years ago

    Ghana is one of the few countries that kill their own for everything imported. How on earth can 2 people do the same job and get pain differently and work under different conditions? only in Ghana. unfortunate our vision is b ...
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  • Africanus 8 years ago

    It is not only Ghana. Every where in the world expatriates get paid better than citizens in many cases. They work under what is called "Expat Contract" which is different from regular employment contract.

    So clearly it doe ...
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  • Alex 8 years ago

    unlike the expects,These citizens' education were paid for by the same dying public. what do you want the gov. to do?

  • Africanus 8 years ago

    The govt should negotiate with the doctors, instead of playing propaganda politics over the strike, and turning Ghanaians against the doctors. That is not solution.

  • Alex 8 years ago

    that where you and I don't agree. yes negotiate but not under such circumstances. These doctors should understand that the public has serve them through hardship to finance their education to become doctors and they should re ...
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  • Skympy 8 years ago

    Nice one, Alex!

  • Shabi 8 years ago

    It is so very annoying how some of you, by some strange quirk of nature think that Cuban doctors are some kind of fools who are there to be summoned at will to come and cover-up the foolishness and incompetence of our govts. ...
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  • Kobe 8 years ago

    Everywhere in the world if you are an expatriate you enjoy better, the doctors travel to any country base on the nations invite they will be taken care of better than their colleagues in that country

  • kabila 8 years ago

    It dépends on your négociation skills. Yu can get my géo location from m'y typo.

  • MATHS 8 years ago

    Go ernment should also contact Medecin sans Frontiere (Doctors wothout Borders) for Doctors as Ghana's case is tantmount to a disaster.

  • Ayamga Andrews aka Andy 8 years ago

    the doctors are lunatics .foolish stupid idiots lunatics. sack all of them.They are foolish doctors. stupid doctors. sack them all.

  • Nkrumah 8 years ago

    You have typed your brain out , by reading your post I can tell you lack common knowledge, have you considered what made the Doctors go on strike? Have you considered the Govt role in all this? Your Govt is sending you to you ...
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  • Dessie 8 years ago

    Mr Adusei;you have got what the minister of health said wrong;He said"under his ministry and on behalf of labour Ministry;All those doctors who are wilingl to work back to the facility on Thursday and signed by the president; ...
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  • Dr Maria Berger 8 years ago

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  • Jew 8 years ago

    You are sick in the head. Why not contact the greedy doctors directly since they are money conscious.

  • The African Patriot 8 years ago

    The only one who is money conscious is your government. No other person or people are so greedy than Your NDC.
    Work for free as slave will help you?

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Please, Segbefia is not a doctor. Kindly make the urgently needed correction.

  • Dr Jay 8 years ago

    You are always on the right track.How can someone like this guy be minister of health when there are so many Team "A" NDC Doctors to take the position. Only in Ghana we put round peg in a square hole. No wonder the country is ...
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  • SANDY 8 years ago

    How can this minister be sensitive to ghanaians when he is from Trinidad and Tobbago just because Ghana is cheap he has joined the thieves to milk Ghanaians. NDC, God will punish you without end.

  • Africanus 8 years ago

    It is very important that these doctors stay resolute. They should not allow themselves to be bullied into submission these politicians. They will be fools to give in at this stage.

  • Skympy 8 years ago

    Resolute for what? Shame on them. They should go back to work. They can resign. Isn't that what they threatened to do? Oh and the last time I checked their benefits were intended for 2016 and so people should die now so they ...
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  • kabila 8 years ago

    Be informéd b4 commenting. Google it up.

  • Gye Nyame 8 years ago

    The government should not think that the excess doctors in Cuba would come to Ghana now that the US and Cuba have resumed diplomatic relations. I am sure they are looking for $$$$ instead of our useless cedis. Also from what ...
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  • OSAMAN BIN KARIM 8 years ago

    HOW FOOLISH IA THE LEADERSHIP OF GMA. GHANAIAN DRS WERE TRAINED AT THE EXPENCE OF THE GHANAIAN TAX PAYER. WE DO NO DEMEND THAT THEY PAY BACK THE COST OF TRAINING. CUBAN DRS ARE PAID THE PARITY IN THEIR COUNTRY, GHANAIAN DRS M ...
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  • Gye Nyame 8 years ago

    I don't think free training is what is considered in these types of negotiations, after all none of the university graduates including doctors were bonded, that is why public university graduates can freely move to the privat ...
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  • Ofori 8 years ago

    And have you also considered the fact that the so-called senior Doctors wouldn't have had the means to train as Medical Doctors without state support? Man in as much as you lambast the gov't, are you saying the Doctors have ...
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  • Africanus 8 years ago

    Please tell me which group of Ghanaians would have had the means to be trained without the support of the Ghanaian tax payer. Even Mahama when to school for free with tax payers money. Can Mahama tells us because of that he w ...
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  • odenoho 8 years ago

    You fool not all Ghanaian doctors were trained with your so called tax payers expense.
    Many Ghanaian doctors were actually trained abroad as non scholarship students, if you're narrow minded logic works why don't the govern ...
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  • Ofori 8 years ago

    Ofui why are they here. They can go outside and get 'proper' conditions of services and why did they take the appointment without condition of service in the first place? And the gov't will also not give what the nation canno ...
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  • Uncle Al. 8 years ago

    Tell us just one Ghanaian dr trained on his own working for the government? Those who return home are the private doctors. Check your facts before you make noises.

  • Asuo 8 years ago

    Oh Odeneho. Your ignorance knows no bounds yet you call somebody a fool. You can check from the GMA office and they will tell you that those who traoined outside are very few. What the doctors are doing is wrong any way you l ...
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  • SENKOAAH 8 years ago

    THWART LIKE YOU,YOUR NAME TELLS ME SOMETHING.WHAT CONTRIBUTION HAVE YOU RENDERED TO GHANA AFTER YOU HAD NORTHERN FREE EDUCATION.PEOPLE LIKE TALK AS IF THERE IS NO BRAIN IN YOUR SKULL.DONKEY LIKE YOU!.

  • moi 8 years ago

    Why not enroll in the medical school on tax payers bill. What is stopping u. You can work n take care of all the sick pple in ghana when ur colleague doctors are ob strike.

  • Kwaku Ananseh 8 years ago

    While GMA greedily and callously watches ghanaians die over money, it took the altruism of foreign doctors to help W. Africa against ebola. Not a single greedy GMA doctor volunteered to help. In fact they threatened not to t ...
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  • JDM 8 years ago

    SO THE TWO ASHANTI HOODLUMS CAN KISS MY ASS- ADUSEI AND SEREBOUR.

  • SENKOAAH 8 years ago

    YOU SEE HOW TRIBALISTIC FOOL YOU ARE.WHY PEPEFOUR ARE SO STUPID LIKE TURKEY.ABOA BA.SON OF A BITCH!.

  • MyFriend 8 years ago

    Of course once you've killed hundreds of people you've lost all sensitivities. Your hands and feet are soiled and your clothes are soaked with innocent blood. Bow your heads in shame.

  • socrates 8 years ago

    if you're indeed entitled to a new conditions of service, no Ghanaian has any qualms about that. Just do it ethically and lawfully. No Doctors worth their salt abandon their patients just for the sake of demanding better cond ...
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  • Obournana 8 years ago

    What is GMA waiting for? Your threats are meaningless. Just resign and let us face it. Cowards who are being used for somebody's political ambitions. When did GMA observed and realized they don't have condition of service? I ...
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  • Mr. Mensah 8 years ago

    IF THE KITCHEN IS TOO HOT FOR YOU JUST GET OUT SAID THE SECURITY ADVISER.IF DOCTORS THINK THEY DESERVE MORE THAN WHAT THE COUNTRY CAN OFFER THEM LET THOSE WHO ARE NOT READY RESIGN AND ALLOW THOSE WHO ARE READY TO WORK.YOU CAN ...
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  • DELA KWAKUVI WISDOM 8 years ago

    The way the leadership of ndc handle state funds is the same way the want to handle our hard working doctors.

    Its great!!!

  • Jerry 8 years ago

    The doctors in Ghana are not hard working. Most of them are lazy, money conscious and proud.

  • CHOICE 8 years ago

    These words came from the mouth of a medical doctor who is trained to save life?
    How much do we pay foreign coaches of our national teams as compared to our local coaches? Some basic economics is needed,Doctor. You cannot tr ...
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  • Michael 8 years ago

    Choice, to further clarify your points, contract workers are always paid higher than ordinary workers.

  • Ofori 8 years ago

    Man they are already nervous. They became nervous, angry, immotional and jittery the moment their demands were made public. What they are doing now is called 'titintrinti' because now in the eyes of right-thinking Ghanaians t ...
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  • Me 8 years ago

    I guess the Cuban tax payers money was used to train you right! You fool!

  • DELA KWAKUVI WISDOM 8 years ago

    Serebour is not an anshanti

  • Che Andrew 8 years ago

    What the public must know is that the Cuban Government provides all the salaries and services to doctors posted to developing countries. The doctors can not even openly complain about the duty post whether in a hamlet of in a ...
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  • Dessie 8 years ago

    look;they like it;it is their way of life..they choose to serve their nation on their own terms..do we do the same?..do we serve our nation well.do you think capitalism help the poor?Cubans are socialist country they more gr ...
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  • BARGAINING CHIP! 8 years ago

    GMA advised members not to allow the Minister of Health to “use them as bargaining chips in this fight”.BUT THEY ARE HAPPY TO USE GHANAIAN AS BARGAINING CHIP!

  • Sir John 8 years ago

    THANK U MR MINISTER; IS EVEN TOO LONG FOR TH DOCTORS THEY SHD BE FIRED BY NOW:: WHOOOO @ ALL UR THEY;;; UR THEY GOD::: JDM PLS; DNT PAY DOCTORS WHO REFUSE TO REPORT BACK TO WORK BCOS NO PAY FOR NO WORK THAN IS VERY LOGIC:: T ...
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  • CONCERNED CITIZEN 8 years ago

    Everybody is missing the point. What happened to all the revenue of the country. Everyday in the news there are millions of Cedis not accounted for, millions of revenue not collected
    The doctors deserve better. Government sh ...
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  • joseph 8 years ago

    Do someone has to be a medical dr. b4 he/she can be a health minister ?
    After all who do these doctors think they are ?
    They can go and work elsewhere and see if they will be treated like kings and queens.

  • Kakaminamor 8 years ago

    The blood of innocent Ghanaians are on your hand and you will pay for it with your blood money. Hopefully some of your family members will pay the price for your recklessness and greed and impunity. "What Shall it benefit a m ...
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  • emma 8 years ago

    THE LANGUAGE OF THE DOCTORS REMIND ME OF OUR STUDENT DAYS. THE POSTURE IS SIMPLY WRONG.

  • Kwame Oduro E15 8 years ago

    Alex Sebgefia is not a medical doctor nor academic phd holder . ghanaians shd stop addressing ppl like that

  • dagion 8 years ago

    God punish u doctors for causing death to our friends fire burn u

  • OCEANZ 8 years ago

    what is this,innocent people are dying,even if your condition of service request is granted at the end your knowledge in medicine can not bring back those who died in your absence,if you sit down for others to come and do you ...
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  • EFIE 8 years ago

    WHAT PIECES,CAN SOME STUPID BREAK SOMETHING AND EXPECT SOMEONE TO PICK UP THE PIECES.

  • back door director 8 years ago

    Poku Edusei the litigant. Doctors have gone back to work

  • kutsii 8 years ago

    In unity u kill innocent patients whose tax monies sponsored ur medical education. Your stupid arrogance and wickedness will not take u anywhere but ur shameful grave. GMA have failed to court public sympathy. Shame unto u. ...
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  • Yahaya Hamidu/Kintampo 8 years ago

    GMA please just carry on with your strike and let all Ghanaians to die. God is the protector of the vulnerable.But let me assure you that any money you make out of this strike will go with the wind.

  • klinker 8 years ago

    As thinking learned human beings do we have to allow the very people whose lives we are to save to die while we are negotiating for our conditions of service? The GMA has leaders who should sit at negotiating table with thei ...
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  • Nyame 8 years ago

    The Doctors are right in demanding for a collective bargaining agreement and I am sure Government is willing to negotiate and sign one with them.
    However what the Doctors are doing wrong is that they are failing to go throug ...
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  • klinker 8 years ago

    Granting the supposed conditions of service must come with a law passed by parliament that any patient who loses his/her life under the watch of a Medical Doctor: The family of the deceased patient has the right to send the d ...
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  • Togbe 8 years ago

    When mad men become drs this is what u get. Mr mad dr even if govt is giving the whole world to the cubans we dont care. Shut up greedy evil dr, we have demystified ur untouchability. De symtons of Prides & shames are showin ...
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  • Wiseman 8 years ago

    Foolish doctors!!!!
    Stupid fools
    Cuban doctor are better than u all

  • William Dzikunu 8 years ago

    But they promised to resign what happened before?

  • Emmanuel Essel Nuamah 8 years ago

    Doctors please Ghanaians need You. People are dying. Government stop the politics with lives of ordinary citizens. God save ghana

  • Haha 8 years ago

    WHO EVER MAKE THIS COMMENT GOD BLESS YOU FOR ALL THE 65 COMMENT I HAVE READ YOURS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE, IT'S SOCIAL MEDIA I WILL HAVE GIVEN U MY NO ANY TIME YOU FACE ANY DIFFICULT Y U CAN CONTACT, BUT I KNOW HOW ...
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  • wheEmmanuel 8 years ago

    When did the car their become a doctor?

  • Fre 8 years ago

    I keep asking go back to emergencies only on limited hours then public with you . Then discuss now and 2016 and beyond you are dealing with FOOLS who are trying to be big boys but they are THICK .....

  • Kyei 8 years ago

    John Mahama should sack Omane Boamah to go back and work at hospital. How can you appoint a medical doctor as a communication minister meanwhile we need most doctors in our hospitals. If medical doctors conditions of service ...
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  • EFIE 8 years ago

    ARE THOSE TWO PEOPLE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT NOT STUPID.

  • Dessie 8 years ago

    low intelligent people;we all cant be doctors

  • Ofori 8 years ago

    Man what are you on about. Omane Boamah made a personal and that is to become a politician and that was his choice so why complain abt him. Any of the striking Docs can also resign and become active politician afterall that's ...
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  • Ayamga Andrews aka Andy 8 years ago

    foolish stupid doctors. the doctors are lunatics. they are idiots. sack them all. foolish doctors.

  • Good 8 years ago

    I believe u have come to see if someone has committed on ur stupid COMMENT are u sound

  • KWAME AFARI 8 years ago

    We can't continuou to be begging these so call doctors who have no respect for those of us that pay them. Infact the President should sack all of the striking doctors if they do not return to work by tomorrow.

  • Alidu Mohammed 8 years ago

    Stupid ndc people very insensitive of our plight. They want to bring in cuban doctors so they can steal more money through that corridor. Mahama and all his people are thieves. They are stealing all our monies and have refuse ...
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  • .SHANGAMA HIGH PRIEST 8 years ago

    All die be die syndrom exhibited . Thanks Nana ADDO

  • Darkwah 8 years ago

    I am very sure the doctors have a target number of people to die before they resume work. I think the number of deaths in the hospitals since the strike has reduced because the bad doctors who intentionally cause pain and dea ...
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  • JOHNj 8 years ago

    THESE DOCTORS HAVE NOW APPEALLED TO THE FORMER GMA LEADER. MAHAMA SHD CONSIDER THE FATE OF GHANAIANS AND SACK THESE IDIOTS OF DOCTORS

  • Joe 8 years ago

    U've said it all.

  • kwame 8 years ago

    Adusei-poku should this, this old fashion had lost its relevance as politicians had over used it. Nobody directs armed robbers whom to attack, i mean armed robbers are Ghanaian living in our societies so don't those need anyo ...
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  • Crystal 8 years ago

    I am not a doctor but the way the government is misbehaving I support them hundred percent. I was shocked to hear a doctors pay in Ghana. One of the lowest paid in the world, in fact too low regarding the service provided. W ...
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  • Gyemah 8 years ago

    We really need Fidel Castro to build the health sector for Ghana also to export mediocre doctors. Ghana has gone too far to be listening from this rubbish from NDC. NDC has no right to rule Ghana with stupid mentality.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

    stop those nonsense comparism, our economy is not the same like britain and USA-
    taking myself as an example- i earn money even more than the president of Ghana as far as monthly salaries are concerned - does it mean that t ...
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  • voltarian 8 years ago

    Atsu, The ndC govt has bn the 1st to break the law of the land. if a person is employed in Ghana, within 3 months, u hav to give hIm
    condition of service.

  • George Nutsugah 8 years ago

    This NDC government is team B except Spio-Garbrah. We have to replace the president, vice-president & ministers of state with Cubans. The Cubans will form a team A government with Spio-Garbrah

  • No lover 8 years ago

    The NDC has no brains to solve the hardships Ghanains are going through, and yet they are taking 10 times more salary than the Doctors,and they the NDC have the best conditions of servise after doing nothing for mother Ghana ...
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  • Ugly akufo addo 8 years ago

    Disgrace idiots now doing propaganda

  • Baako Abdul Fatawu 8 years ago

    I have never in my life time see fools like this our current so call doctors. They think they are more superior to other Ghanaians, when you cannot even consult your own colleague, but rather resorting consultation in abroad ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

    these are the thinking of the most brilliant persons in ghana-that they are on strike to fight for future generation? arent you ashame of yourself that Cuba doctors are to come and safe life for you to fight for them?- where ...
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  • Nana akuffo addo 8 years ago

    THIS CURRENT EXECUTIVES OF GMA ARE FOOLS. THEY SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD AND RESIGN. SEREBOUR, YANKEY AND THE PRESIDENTS ARE ALL POLITICAL CLOTH EXECUTIVE AND I URGE THEIR MEMBERS TO IGNORE THEM

  • Kofi Abanga 8 years ago

    Doctors, please go back to work and leave the fool alone. How does a human being negotiate with a dead goat?

  • Kofi Abanga 8 years ago

    Doctors, please go back to work and leave the fool alone. How does a human being negotiate with a dead goat?

  • Appepesu 8 years ago

    The Ghanaian population should call the government to order . You can not bring in Cubans and treat them better than our own doctors , then turn around and tell the ignorant Cubans are helping Us
    The government by doing thi ...
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  • SOCIAL WHIP 8 years ago

    I would like to meet the doctors on strike in the churches and the mosques where they worship and help them to pray for forgiveness of the sin they are committing against poor Ghanaians . I want them to know that they were b ...
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  • #GHANAIANLIVESMATTER# 8 years ago

    When incompetents govern a country and steal every and anything, this is what results.
    Imagine Haruna Iddrisu or Alex Segbefia collecting conditions of service in this country, and for what exactly?
    It is fellow Ghanaians I ...
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  • Kobe 8 years ago

    Let's be practical here all these back and forth is not worth it people are dying in the name of what? In the first place how long has the aduseis and the serebours work with their employer? I thought you ask for conditions o ...
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  • Kobe 8 years ago

    Let's be practical here all these back and forth is not worth it people are dying in the name of what? In the first place how long has the aduseis and the serebours work with their employer? I thought you ask for conditions o ...
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  • razak seini 8 years ago

    where as a ghanain doctor has a fully furnished accommodation,cars and other benefits, 4 or 5 cuban doctors are normally cramp in a bungalow and most often provided with and old pickup to do their jobs yet they do not complai ...
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  • dunaa 8 years ago

    Segbefia's ultimatum is very ill advised! It is hard for me as an observer, to attack the NDC as a political party for these missteps of government functionaries. There is a general tendency among ALL Ghanaians to make ad hom ...
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  • BORN-FILLA(B-FILLA). 8 years ago

    Those insulting doctors may God forgive them .
    Who is working 4 funs.
    Blame your who so call himself the President.