Members of the Komfo Anokye Doctors Association (KADA) have suspended their intended strike action over non-payment of car maintenance allowance and 13th Month Salary for 2020 and 2021.
This follows engagement with the management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) on January 31.
The strike action was meant to have commenced on February 1 to February 4, 2022.
In a statement to announce the suspension of the strike, the Association said they took the decision after the hospital’s management and the Health Ministry had shown some form of commitment to ending the long-standing stalemate.
“The decision was taken at our Emergency General Meeting held on January 31 2022. The decision was taken after a show of some commitment by Hospital Management and the Ministry of Health to end the long-standing stalemate in the fulfillment of our signed conditions of service in 2019,” part of the statement read.
The statement added, “We hope, as agreed, earlier at the meeting of KADA executives with Hospital Management that by the end of working hours on Thursday, February 3, 2022, there will be a clear concise payment schedule.”
KADA had earlier threatened to embark on industrial action over poor conditions of service.
In an interview with Citi News, the Vice Chairman for KADA, Dr. Kwaku Nyame said the management of KATH had failed to comply with the implementation of their signed conditions of service that has been directed by the Finance Ministry.
“Some parts of our conditions of service signed in 2019 haven’t been met as of now. Included in that bracket is our car maintenance allowance and our 13th-month allowance, which hasn’t been paid.”
“With our current situation, the resolution at our general assembly was to embark on a strike tomorrow [Tuesday], February 1, if we don’t have a commitment for the payment of those allowances,” Dr. Nyame told Citi News.
He said despite engagements with the hospital’s management at the local and national level, there has not been any definite response on the issue.
“We are well aware that the GMA has had engagements with the Labour Commission, the Ministry of Health and even the Ministry of Finance on these issues, and we haven’t had any definite response yet,” he noted.
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