Labor dispute resolution consultant, Austin Gamey, has described the strike embarked on by anaesthetists as not on salary but on class demand. <\/p>\n On his accord, this strike action should not have happened in the first place as it\u2019s simply about a small group of doctors trying to undermine and establish class control over these specialists.<\/p>\n Mr. Gamey pointed out that certified anaesthetists have served Ghana judiciously especially at a time where the country had no trained doctors as anaesthetists.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have been working all these years to ease our pain whenever we went under the knife. Now we have some 50 to 60 trained doctors in anesthesia and unfortunately, there appears to be tension between them and a change of name to anaesthetists, this is why the strike is taking place. This simply is about class control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Gamey further stated that it was needless for the name and treatment of anaesthetists to be changed since these doctors can only be found in Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, whilst the anesthetists are in all hospitals. \u201cSo why will you try to undermine them?\u201d he queried.<\/p>\n Additionally, Mr. Gamey stated that the class control in the medical institution is overwhelming \u201cand I wouldn\u2019t have allowed it to get this far if I was a part of government.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show, Mr. Gamey, admitted that the attempt to change the name of anaesthetists is wrong and revealed the government is actively taking steps to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists began industrial action on January 1, 2022, over a change in their title from \u201cCertified Registered Anaesthetists\u201d to \u201cPhysician Assistants\u201d.<\/p>\n The Association said in a letter addressed to Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu that the strike was occasioned by the Ministry\u2019s failure to address the concerns of its members following the title change.<\/p>\n \u201cThe leadership of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists wish to bring to the attention of your honorable office and other stakeholders that its members cannot continue to provide anaesthesia services effective 1st January 2022,\u201d the Association said in the letter.<\/p>\n The Association holds the view that the title change by the Health Ministry implies Certified Registered Anesthetists (CRAs) will not be illegible to practice anaesthesia by law and are not prepared to renew their licenses with the Medical and Dental Council (MDC).<\/p>\n The Association says this flouts the resolution of members at the 3rd Annual General Congress and Scientific Session held in Kumasi in December this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Gamey, Labour expert Labor dispute resolution consultant, Austin Gamey, has described the strike embarked on by anaesthetists as not on salary but on class demand. On his accord, this strike action should not have happened in the first place as it\u2019s simply about a small group of doctors trying to undermine and establish class […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738061","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=738061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Austin](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/53272147.295.jpg\" "\\"Austin")
Austin Gamey, Labour expert<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n