Doctors’ strike:Diabetic patient pleads for quick end

A man suffering from diabetes and hypertension has pleaded with the government and striking doctors to move quickly to sort things out to end his pain.

Mr Opoku Agyemang Prempeh, Managing Director of Lakayana Company, said the situation is becoming unbearable for people like him with chronic diseases.

Doctors in the public health facilities have abandoned the hospitals to press for better service conditions and threatening to resign en masse.

Making his plea through the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi, Mr Prempeh said as the stalemate continues, there are a number of people suffering and dying.

He said it is completely unacceptable to allow the phenomenon to prevail and the way out is for both parties is to show good faith and find a common ground to end the impasse.

Mr Prempeh invited all well-meaning Ghanaians to put more pressure on the government and doctors to sit down and negotiate.

The businessman chastised government communicators whose utterances, he said, are provoking and inflaming passions and asked that they behave responsibly.

He urged the doctors to consider the plight of innocent and helpless patients who are dying, to return to work while they negotiate for a better deal.

He said he sees no reason why the two sides should not be able to strike a compromise and arrange to have whatever they agreed on, captured in the 2016 national budget.