{"id":285710,"date":"2015-07-30T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/stop-churning-out-lies-to-malign-us-doctor-warns-govt\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:36:00","slug":"stop-churning-out-lies-to-malign-us-doctor-warns-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/07\/30\/stop-churning-out-lies-to-malign-us-doctor-warns-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop churning out lies to malign us: doctor warns govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>As the strike by the Ghana Medical Association begins to bite, the government has been warned to stop putting out false information to cause disaffection for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>A striking doctor, who does not want to be named, told Joy FM\u2019s Top Story Thursday he is \u201cupset\u201d that false information is being circulated on social media by assigns of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is playing with the issue,\u201d the livid doctor pointed out, adding that persons working for the government are \u201cchurning out lies on us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Ghana Medical Association withdrew their services nationwide today after four hours of negotiations with government on their condition of service yesterday failed.<\/p>\n<p>According to GMA\u2019s road map, doctors will begin with the withdrawal of OPD services today for a week. The country\u2019s premier health facility, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has announced that its OPD has been closed.<\/p>\n<p>If after a week, the concerns of the doctors are not resolved, they will withdraw emergency services and they will later resign en masse.<\/p>\n<p>More soon<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"CICssVerticalSpacer\"><!----><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">More General News \u00bb<\/div>\n<div class=\"CICssVerticalSpacer\"><!----><\/div>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;margin-bottom:5px\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>1 <\/b> comments,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the strike by the Ghana Medical Association begins to bite, the government has been warned to stop putting out false information to cause disaffection for doctors.A striking doctor, who does not want to be named, told Joy FM\u2019s Top Story Thursday he is \u201cupset\u201d that false information is &#8230;<\/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-285710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}