Junior doctors at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have hinted they could soon join their counterparts at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to lay down their tools. The doctors claim their demands for the payment of outstanding allowances have long been relegated to the background. Chairman of the Junior Doctors Association at Korle Bu, Dr Ernest Yorke, said a meeting with his colleagues on Monday will determine their next line of action. “We’ve been everywhere and talked to everybody but it seems things have not been forthcoming,” he hinted. Doctors at KATH in Kumasi embarked on a strike Friday to protest what they said had been a delay in the payment of their fuel allowances. The Chairman of the Junior Doctors Association at KATH, Dr Osei Sarfo-Kantanka, said several negotiations with the hospital administration on the matter had produced little results. Joy FM correspondent Yaw Ansu Gyeabour reported several hundreds of patients lay the wards of KATH while doctors there were visibly missing in action. Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Dr Nsiah Asare told Joy News in a later interview that he had been signing cheques for the doctors and expressed hope the doctors would resume work before Friday. But the situation could be a lot more frightening as junior doctors at Korle-Bu, sharing in the interest of their KATH counterparts, have served notice they could also join the strike to demand their unpaid allowances. Meanwhile Health Minister, Dr Sipa Yankey Monday morning made a passionate appeal to junior doctors at KATH to return to post to save the lives of innocent Ghanaians. While the doctors say their allowances have been outstanding for 18 months, Dr Yankey stresses it is unfair for the doctors to go on strike when the Mills administration has been in power for only four months. He said government is expediting action to ensure that all outstanding allowances are cleared. Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com