A Strategy for Removing the GMA’s stranglehold on ....

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• ACID 10 years ago

  Is any one listening ?Ghana Gov. Take note !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Is any one listening ?Ghana Gov. Take note !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• J Boamah 10 years ago

  Excellent contribution to the debate on how to manage this chronic problem. I would add that once graduated, the "doctors" would have an initial service term, and would have to attain a service performance level, otherwise wo ...
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  Excellent contribution to the debate on how to manage this chronic problem. I would add that once graduated, the "doctors" would have an initial service term, and would have to attain a service performance level, otherwise would be terminated from public service. Those who elect not to serve after obtaining their free medical education, would have to reimburse the people of Ghana who sponsored thier education. Just like the US system you referr to, which I am very familiar, the re-enlistment package should be attractive to encourage high performance and desire for the retained doctors to want to stay/continue. However, if one is unhappy or beleive they can do better in the private sector, there would be breakpoints to allow them to leave. Thats how the US public service and the military retain highly skilled doctors who choose not to enter private sector despite its lure.

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• Mike frm Ho. 10 years ago

  It looks like people have the power to rule, the thinking cup is gone.

  It looks like people have the power to rule, the thinking cup is gone.

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• Nokware_ Asa 10 years ago

  The Doctors` Association, has cleverly been allowed to gain a priviledged(special status) position in our society, which it[the GMA] has exploited to the group`s own corporate interests.
  I mean, is it any wonder these two gr ...
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  The Doctors` Association, has cleverly been allowed to gain a priviledged(special status) position in our society, which it[the GMA] has exploited to the group`s own corporate interests.
  I mean, is it any wonder these two groups, or its top leadership, have always taken a partisan position, rather than a national one, in their dealings with different administrations, that is, its support of a particular political party?
  Why can`t the State[represented by a government in charge of running the affairs of the nation as a whole] not exercise its enormous power to grant recognition[by way of the Charters it grants to these Universities/Higher Learning Institutions], revoke same, and thus render the 'monopoly position' enjoyed by these 'greedy bastards' worthless? Without a license to practise what can these doctors do? We are know that many who opted to ply their trade elsewhere, have ended up becoming hospital auxilliary, cab drivers, etc, because they lack a license to work as physicians. If these professional bodies can revoke the licenses of their members, why not the State?
  To me waiting till the eleventh hour to 'import' and handful of Cuban Doctors is not a bold way of asserting the State`s enormous power and authority in this dispute; and see the author`s proposal as a serious way of strengthening the govt`s hand.

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• ama 10 years ago

  Check your facts aren't the fire service personnel pampered? They have all kinds of aloiwNces so what's wrong with meh asking for conditions of service, the problem I'd recurring becos everyone thinks docs swear an oath and i ...
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  Check your facts aren't the fire service personnel pampered? They have all kinds of aloiwNces so what's wrong with meh asking for conditions of service, the problem I'd recurring becos everyone thinks docs swear an oath and its a calling, calling my foot, the pastors who are called live in nice houses and charge consultations! What about the welfare of those who doctors and their families, who takes care of them and their families when they bring diseases from work. The. Senior lecturer in the university. Takes more than the most senior consultant in moh and still has benefits, please , stop it, at a point everyone's education was govt funded so don't be hippo critical , send ur child to med school and u will note that it's not worth what it cost to train becos they earn so little on completion.it takes 12yrs of training to become a specilaist and diagnose a case in 5mins.a doctor can't even afford to send their children to medical school!
  
  Why can't doctors have conditions of service like all essential services?

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• Kwabla, Somanya 10 years ago

  There's nothing wrong with asking for better conditions of service. There's a lot wrong with holding the health of the nation hostage. Can you imagine what will happen if the police go on strike and leave the populace at the ...
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  There's nothing wrong with asking for better conditions of service. There's a lot wrong with holding the health of the nation hostage. Can you imagine what will happen if the police go on strike and leave the populace at the mercy of armed robbers just because they are demanding some lofty non-negotiable conditions of service? I hope the doctors will be content with the conditions of service of Senior Lecturers in the Universities as you seem to be implying.

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• Emmanuel K 10 years ago

  Thanks for wasting our time. You want Ghana to adopt the strategy used in the US... Do the same conditions of service apply here as it is over there?
  Problem with people like you is the failure to be honest and make useful c ...
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  Thanks for wasting our time. You want Ghana to adopt the strategy used in the US... Do the same conditions of service apply here as it is over there?
  Problem with people like you is the failure to be honest and make useful contributions to these problems with the usual politically motivated smell all over. Give us a break

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• Abdul Aziz 10 years ago

  I absolutely second this initiative.health is important.why should the tax payers be suffering.tax payers are the bosses of GMA buh they let them suffer n die.

  I absolutely second this initiative.health is important.why should the tax payers be suffering.tax payers are the bosses of GMA buh they let them suffer n die.

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  The GMA is the problem and must solve it by itself. Members of the GMA are chasing money too much, as such they do not have time for other problems including their own conditions of service and working environment.

  The GMA is the problem and must solve it by itself. Members of the GMA are chasing money too much, as such they do not have time for other problems including their own conditions of service and working environment.

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• beba 10 years ago

  How many times must it be drummed into the ears of ghanaians that doctors pay fees? The pay the highest fees in any public university in ghana. If you want us to adopt american ways of doing things, first give me american con ...
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  How many times must it be drummed into the ears of ghanaians that doctors pay fees? The pay the highest fees in any public university in ghana. If you want us to adopt american ways of doing things, first give me american conditions.

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• junior 10 years ago

  Many parents are sponsoring their wards at the medical schools,paying 10000 cedis a year as tuition fees

  Many parents are sponsoring their wards at the medical schools,paying 10000 cedis a year as tuition fees

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• Addo G 10 years ago

  If the students paid for their full medical education, they will not be affected by such a plan, unless they want to join the GPHSCC voluntarily. It is the ones taxpayers paid for who come out and then screw the people that a ...
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  If the students paid for their full medical education, they will not be affected by such a plan, unless they want to join the GPHSCC voluntarily. It is the ones taxpayers paid for who come out and then screw the people that are the problem.

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