Consultants at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi have Monday afternoon declared an indefinite strike action over unpaid allowances. The consultants who number about 100 double as teachers at the medical school of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and as supervisors of junior doctors at the hospital, say they will no longer be supervising the work of the junior doctors until their top up allowances, outstanding for almost a year now, are paid. The strike action was declared after an emergency meeting Monday. In lieu of their migration to the single spine salary pay policy, the affected consultants are paid a percentage of their salaries as allowances owing to the peculiar nature of their engagement – with some of them employed under the Ministry of Education while the others are employed under the Ministry of Health. A spokesman of the group, Dr. Frank Ankobeah, said two letters they wrote on March 9 and 27 to the Health Ministry on the issue had not been responded to, while the last time they were paid the allowance was for the first quarter of 2011 when they threatened a strike action. In a memo addressed to the Minister of Health, the CEO of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, they resolved not to return to work until their issues are addressed.