The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has been sued for embarking on strike.

In a suit filed by a citizen, Listowell Nana Kusi-Poku on Thursday, the weeklong strike set to escalate tomorrow has been described as “illegal”.

The plaintiff is therefore praying the court to “compel the defendant to go back to the negotiation table.”

Kusi-Poku, among the reliefs he is seeking at the High Court, the Labour and Industrial Division, is “a perpetual injunction order compelling the defendant to return to work and to stay at work until the conclusion of negotiations”.

The plaintiff, who is the General Secretary of the United Front Party, noted that since the defendant provides essential services, its resort to strike to achieve its demand is “most unfortunate as same as illegal”.

“While the defendant is entitled to its demands as far as improvement on existing conditions are concerned same must be done on a gradual basis and the defendant’s employer ought to consider these demands holistically within the context of existing resources available to it so as not to default its implementation in the event that it finally accedes to its demands.”

According Kusi-Poku, the conduct of the GMA is “quite disturbing in view of the crucial role medical doctors play in any nation’s life and wondered if a strike action should not be the last resort especially since it had not heard of any negotiations between the Government or its representatives which had broken down preceding the announcement that the defendant was embarking on a strike action.”