Striking doctors have rubbished calls from a section of the public for their salaries to be withheld because of their ongoing strike, which is affecting healthcare delivery in most public hospitals. The doctors have been on strike since April 08 over unpaid allowances. Despite appeals by government, they have refused to back down until their demands are met. The situation has fueled calls from sections of the public which say their salaries should be withheld for the period they’ve been on strike. But the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Kwabena Opoku Adusei said the doctors have already been paid. “Not that I expect to be paid, I have been paid and I have started chopping the money because I worked,” Dr Opoku Adusei declared. “It is very, very, very fair. If you look at the practice and the norms of the country there is no group [that] has gone on strike and [their] money has not been paid. “We did emergency services to some time, we are still doing in-patient...it is government that is preventing me from working [fully],” the GMA president stated. “...I am very clear in my mind and so long as the strike continues, I will receive my salary...”