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By
Samira Larbie, GNA

Accra, Nov. 12, GNA
– The Ministry of Health has said that it would be meeting with the executives
of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) by Friday to reach a compromise over the
renewal of their conditions of service.

Mr Elorm Ametepey,
the Public Relations Officer (PRO), said this in an interview with the Ghana
News Agency (GNA) in Accra on Monday.

He said government
and the labour union was still negotiating on the demands of the doctors and
was hopeful that the issue would be resolved before the deadline given by the
GMA.

Mr Emmanuel Earl
Ankrah, the PRO of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), also in an
interview with the GNA supported the stance of the Ministry.

This follows the
Association’s threat to withdraw outpatient services in all public health
institutions as the first line of action if the government fails to meet its
request by November 18, 2019.

It said the strike
would be extended to all emergency services from Monday, December 2 to 8, 2019
and finally to a total withdrawal of services from 9th, December 2019.

The Association said
the conditions of service of its members working in the public sector expired
on December 31, 2018, but all efforts to get the government to renew them has
failed.

It said the GMA and
government signed the conditions of service document for doctors and dentists
working in the Ministry and its agencies, adding that the implementation date
for that document was January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018.

It said government
has been going back and forth with the Association over the renewal of the
conditions of service, hence the intention to strike if the requirements are
not met.

GNA


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