Members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has decided to extend the for two more weeks although the crisis in the health sector has deepened.
The striking medical officers also resolved to continue the withdrawal of emergency services at public health institutions.
The doctors have accused the government of acting in bad faith and not showing enough commitment to negotiations, but government insists that it was under pressure from the doctors.
Former President John Kuffuor has appealed to the doctors, he said “For the ultimate humanitarian considerations of the suffering masse of the people of Ghana and with the doctors’ case already so strongly made, I appeal to them to restrain themselves from taking the final step of irreparable damage to the nation. The strike should be called off. The nation I believe will not forget this informed compromise.”
Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Haruna Idrissu also added that the government is committed to bring an end to the doctor’s strike.
He said “We have a shared and a collective responsibility together with the doctors, to preserve human lives and government will do exactly that.
