{"id":61736,"date":"2013-04-09T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/statement-npp-appeals-to-gma-on-withdrawal-of-emergency-services\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:27:51","slug":"statement-npp-appeals-to-gma-on-withdrawal-of-emergency-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/09\/statement-npp-appeals-to-gma-on-withdrawal-of-emergency-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: NPP appeals to GMA on withdrawal of emergency services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mgsImg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cb97240x_mg_bfv2ylk88s_59401301_167740.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NDU3NTg2';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mgscap\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mgscapTxt\">Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party has taken note of the ongoing strike action by members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and their recent threat to suspend emergency services at the hospitals with effect from 15th April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to appeal to the GMA to reconsider their threat to withdraw emergency services in the interest of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>We take this opportunity to call on the government to demonstrate, urgently, leadership with regards to the settlement of the grievances of the Doctors since this affects all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Signed\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<br \/>Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie<br \/>(General Secretary)<\/p>\n<p\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The New Patriotic Party has taken note of the ongoing strike action by members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and their recent threat to suspend emergency services at the hospitals with effect from 15th April 2013.We would like to appeal to the GMA to reconsider their threat to withdraw emergency services in the interest of the nation.We take this opportunity to call on the government to demonstrate, urgently, leadership with regards to the settlement of the grievances of the Doctors since this affects all Ghanaians.\u2026Signed\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie(General Secretary)&#13; &#13; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Statement: NPP appeals to GMA on withdrawal of emergency services - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/09\/statement-npp-appeals-to-gma-on-withdrawal-of-emergency-services\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Statement: NPP appeals to GMA on withdrawal of emergency services - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; 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