Doctors' strike "kills" pregnant woman
A pregnant woman and her unborn child lost their lives when the pregnant woman was left unattended to by medical officers at the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital as a result of the the ongoing strike by doctors.
Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, told the heart-breaking story of the avoidable maternal death to colleague Members of Parliament on the first day of sitting of the House after MPs reconvened for the last meeting of the year.
“The pregnant woman went to Komfo Anokye to deliver, nobody attended to her, they went round scampering for help, they couldn’t touch base with any ready hands, the woman perished and the unborn baby perished as well, certainly this cannot be right”, he said.
His comments came hours after an Accra court dismissed a case brought against the nation’s medical doctors by the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations. In its ruling today, the court said the NGO coalition bringing the case against the GMA did not have locus standi to sue the Ghana Medical Association finding that, as per the nation’s labour laws, only the National Labour Commission has legal standing to bring such an action.
On the floor of Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, said the time for urgent resolution of the doctors’ strike is now and Parliament should consider ways of tactically intervening to end the stand-off.
“Now is not the time to apportion blames, it is important for us to look at it dispassionately, very objectively and see how we can help to solve this matter before us”.
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