{"id":1245463,"date":"2022-11-07T06:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/gma-wants-salaries-of-members-to-be-pegged-at-dollar-rate-over-cost-of-living-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:40:02","slug":"gma-wants-salaries-of-members-to-be-pegged-at-dollar-rate-over-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/gma-wants-salaries-of-members-to-be-pegged-at-dollar-rate-over-cost-of-living-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"GMA wants salaries of members to be pegged at dollar rate over cost of living crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has hinted of making a demand for their salaries to be pegged against the US dollar if government fails to stabilize the Ghana cedis.<\/p>\n<p>The government has come under criticism over its inability to check the record depreciation of the cedi and the increasing cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Some Ghanaians protested on Saturday to demand the resignation of the President and Vice-President over the current economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Titus Beyuo said such a decision will help reduce the exodus of medical practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government must try to stabilize the economy because the real value of our salaries has reduced by about 50 percent and, even if in dollar terms, we are earning less. So in future negotiations, if the government does not stabilize the economy, we have no choice but to ask for our salaries and allowances to be pegged at the dollar rate so that, they do not lose value\u201d, he told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has hinted of making a demand for their salaries to be pegged against the US dollar if government fails to stabilize the Ghana cedis. The government has come under criticism over its inability to check the record depreciation of the cedi and the increasing cost of living. Some Ghanaians protested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}