FWSC optimistic of accord with GMA; Doctors think otherwise.
As the 48-hour negotiation deadline approaches, there seems to be no end in sight for the strike called by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) while the strike continues to breakdown the country’s health care delivery system.
For close to two weeks, members of the GMA have laid down their tools in a nationwide strike to protest the inability of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to provide a definite evidence of migration of doctors onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
The GMA is also not happy that the commission is finding it difficult to deal with distortions found in the grading structures of the Single Spine Pay policy.
The National Labour Commission (NLC) yesterday held a meeting with the FWSC and the GMA to initiate the process for settling the dispute between them by Compulsory Arbitration.
At the meeting, the FWSC and the GMA agreed to continue negotiations which began earlier and were optimistic of reaching an agreement on the outstanding issues within 48 hours.
But as the 48 hour deadline approaches it appears the doctors are not going to the theatres soon. The strike continues to have its toll on the healthcare delivery in the country as people begin to die due to the lack of doctors.
The unfortunate demise of a 50-year-old man at the Ridge Hospital and many other more comes after the doctors swore they were not going to admit emergency cases to register their strongest protest against the FWSC and government who they accuse of stalling the negotiation process.
Perhaps this is why the National Democratic Congress Youth Committee wants the President of the GMA, Emmanuel Adom Winful and his allies to be prosecuted for murder of innocent lives to bring justice to the families of all deceased within the last ten days at the various hospitals in the country.
This, according to the NDC youth, was because the GMA boss had made a comment to the effect that people die anyway and so if doctors’ strike results in deaths, there is nothing wrong with it.
Johanes Macwood, e.tv Ghana news.
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