Doctors on strike at 37, Ridge hospitals

Junior doctors at the Ridge and 37 Military hospitals in Accra, are today laying down their tools until their salaries, outstanding for eight months, are fully paid.

A meeting Monday morning with the Health Minister and other health authorities aimed at resolving the issue, ended in a stalemate.

Representatives of the Junior Doctors at the meeting told Joy FM that the Health Minister, Major Courage Quasigah (retd) had claimed he was not aware of the non payment of their salaries and that he was hearing it for the first time. He therefore asked them to put their complaint in writing to be addressed.

The doctors said they will comply with the request, however that will not stop them from staying away from work until all their salaries are settled.

Some of the doctors said what they had been made to go through, (working for eight months without salaries) amounted to slavery.

The aggrieved doctors claimed no excuse or explanation has been offered them so far on why their salaries have been outstanding since they took up appointment late last year, except their immediate supervisors have from time to time urged them to exercise restraint.

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Author: Isaac Yeboah