GMA demands retirement salary for members, improved conditions of service

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is demanding that government put in place measures that will ensure all of its members continue to receive a salary even after retiring.

The President of the Association, Dr. Frank Serebour tabled the demand at the 65th General Meeting of the Association on Monday, November 13.

In his address, Dr. Frank Serebour said the conditions of service of doctors must also be improved.

“We need to be protected from workplace hazards, we need to be given accessible healthcare which is unambiguously free, we need to be compensated for all the hazards we face.

"Our pensions need to be secured after we have sacrificed our bodies, minds, and souls, we need logistics and an enabling environment to enable us to heal ourselves so that we can have the mental and physical well-being to be able to heal the population. Retirement on salary is not too much to ask for,” Dr. Frank Serebour said.

The Ghana Medical Association insists that its members should not be made to pay the ultimate price of losing their lives and homes in the quest to take care of the vulnerable.

The leadership of GMA also wants the government to reinstate the vehicle importation tax waiver for health workers.

"What we are asking for is not an impossibility. We are not asking for the moon to swallow the sun neither are we asking for immortality,” Dr. Frank Serebour added as part of the demands of the Ghana Medical Association.