GMA extends deadline for mass resignationn
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has extended the deadline for resigning en masse to the end of July 2015.
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The doctors had planned a mass resignation action on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 following the government’s inability to give them conditions of service.
But at a meeting Monday, the GMA reached a consensus to give government more time to put together the conditions of service for public sector health workers.
Background
The GMA, at the end of its third national executive council (NEC) meeting in Cape Coast on May 31, 2015, threatened to resign en masse if its members did not have a negotiated and signed conditions of service by the end of June 2015.
At the meeting the GMA said it would hold the government to its promise to ensure that GMA members working with the Ministry of Health (MoH) through the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the teaching hospitals were provided with conditions of service.
Framework
The doctors last week boycotted the signing of a framework to guide them in negotiating for better conditions of service.
According to the General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Frank Serebour, “The signing does not take them any step further in their agitations for a condition of service to be put in place.”
According to him, what was needed was the actual negotiations which would determine their conditions of service.
To that end, he reiterated that the GMA was going to hold the emergency meeting to decide if they should still go by their earlier call to resign en masse.
