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Governments Decision to release Doctors ‘Demands’ is Criminal – Bediako

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Karim Ahmed Bediako
Karim Ahmed Bediako

A member of the Upper East Regional communications team of the New Patriotic Party Karim Ahmed Bediako has described the decision of government to release information purported to be the demands the Ghana Medication Association is making in the ongoing rumpus as malicious and a calculated attempt to dent the image of the doctors.

A presidential staffer Stan Dogbe in a Facebook post released detailed information containing demands purported to be made by the doctors as part of their condition of service. In the Facebook release, the presidential staffer said “the demand by the doctors through the GMA goes beyond what they have been putting in the news. As we speak, doctors receive among others, the following:

On-call-duty facilitation: 10% of basic salary
Accommodation (in leu): 20% of basic salary
Fuel (House Officer- SMO): 20gallons per month
Fuel (PMO – Specialist): 30gallons per month
Fuel (Sen Specialist- Consultant): 30gallons per month

The GMA is now demanding the following:
On-call-duty facilitation: 20% of basic salary
Accommodation (in leu): 40% of basic salary
Fuel (House Officer- SMO): 80gallons per month
Fuel (PMO – Specialist): 90gallons per month
Fuel (Sen Specialist- Consultant): 100gallons per month
Clothing allowance: 30% of basic salary”.

Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East with Azongo Albert Thursday, Bediako said this move by government to leak information from the ongoing negotiations is meant to make the doctors appear insensitive and making inordinate demands. According to him, whatever the negotiations maybe, a release of details of the discussion must include what the government is offering and not only what the doctors are asking for.

“Government has decided to criminally release to the public the demands of the doctors and calling it outrageous demands even though government for whatever reason has decided not to release to the public what they have offered the doctors and the doctors have declined. It would have been very appropriate and interesting if government after finding it necessary to release what the doctors are demanding should tell us what they are offering so that we can look at the two and make an objective analysis of it. Unfortunately government is not in the position to tell us what they are offering but rather they are castigating the doctors and describing their demands as outrageous. This is unfortunate” he said.

Ghana Medical Association (GMA) declared a nationwide strike effective Thursday following a meeting with ministers of health, finance and employment which ended in a deadlock.

The meeting was held after weeks of a rift between the association and government over conditions of service. The doctors have withdrawn Out Patient Department (OPD) services across all hospitals in the country as the beginning of a road map towards a resignation en mass in the next two weeks.

By: Offei-Akotto Ayeh | A1radioonline.com | Ghana


 

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