Doctors embark on nationwide strike




The Ghana Medical Association will from this morning withdraw out-patient services as it embarks on a nationwide strike over salary distortions.

According to the doctors, they will only attend to emergencies and in-patients for this week. The GMA further indicates the strike will intensify with all services withdrawn if no word is heard from government within the week.

President of the GMA, Dr Kwabena Opoku-Adusei told Joy News government has not been forth coming in abiding by the National Labour Commission’s ruling concerning the conversion difference and market premium.

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