A planned action by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to embark on mass resignation on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, has been postponed, Kasapafmonline.com has learnt.
This follows a crunch meeting held Monday at the College of Physicians and Surgeons by leaders of the public sector health workers to decide on the next line of action after the June 30, 2015 deadline they gave to the government.
Kasapa FM’s, Kwaku Opare, reports that the decision is to afford the government enough time to absorb all the negotiation processes with the health workers.
“The commitment demonstrated by the government is the main reason for the postponement of the planned mass resignation,” our correspondent said.
Reports suggest that government has requested for more time to fine tune the issue.
“It will not be fair to go ahead with our action while negotiations are ongoing. Besides, the government has pleaded for enough time to resolve the issue amicably,”a medical doctor who spoke to Kasapa FM said.
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.
But the government has over the past few days been on the negotiation table with officials of the GMA for a possible resolution to the issue.
The Ghana Medical Association(GMA), last friday refused signing a framework document that will guide negotiations for their conditions of service, officials say.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
