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Executive Director of policy think-tank IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has said using legal action to compel doctors to go to work disgruntled, will not resolve the 25 days old strike by the Ghana Medical Association.
He was speaking as a co-panelist on Joy FM's Super Morning Show, Thursday.
Government has so far undertaken three interventions to contain the effect of the industrial action will have on patients across the country.
Deputy Health Minister Rojo Mettle Nunoo on Tuesday April 16, 2013, asked retired doctors to take up temporary responsibility at the various public health centres in the country.
On May day it was reported that 350 Cuban doctors have conveniently arrived in the country to support healthcare delivery under a medical service and educational agreement between Ghana and Cuba. The Cuban doctors will not be paid salaries but rather receive monthly allowances of $150 and free accommodation.
Finally, last Wednesday, the National Labour Commission (NLC) also began processes at the Accra High Court to compel striking doctors to go back to work.
In this latest measure by the NLC, the Policy Director of IMANI asked rhetorically, “can you imagine disgruntled doctors forced to go to work?.
He warned ominously that as far as the labour front was concerned the “worst is yet to come” because the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) was “one contorted, illogical policy”.
“Let’s not kid ourselves” the current impasse between GMA and government was in his view “a question of trust”.
As a real remedial measure, Mr. Cudjoe offered that a national stakeholders' meeting should be held to discuss problems “dispassionately”, instead of “fighting in the media” with its often acrimonious undertones .
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