ASHANTI DOCTORS ADAMANT

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Dr. Ankobia, (left), and Dr. Kyei,  GMA after the meeting
Members of the Ashanti Division of the Ghana Medical Association has pledged its fullest support  to the National Executives of the Association in their struggle for a coded and signed conditions of service document for medical doctors in the public sector of Ghana. 

The Division has as well pledged to its commitment to the implementation of the road map earlier outlined by the GMA in the pursue of the service conditions. 

These are among other issues contained in a communiqué signed by the Divisional Chairman, Dr. Frank Ankobea, and the Secretary, Dr. Ishmael Kyei, and issued to the media in Kumasi after a meeting of the Division in Kumasi today, Thursday August 20. 

The communiqué called on all colleague medical doctors employed by the Ghana Health Service and its agencies to comply with the decision taken at the extra-ordinary General Assembly Meeting of the GMA in Accra last Friday to continue with the strike action. 

It also condemned the what it considers to be intimidation of House Officers by some health facility managers and warned that such behaviour should stop immediately. 

The Ashanti Division of the GMA thanked the Ashanti Regional Police Command for its swift response to alleged threats on the lives of some of its members by a social commentator who gave out the addresses of some doctors on a radio station for armed robbery attack. 

The communiqué however called for the arrest and prosecution of the social commentator involved. Meanwhile, Ashanti Today can confirm that the GMA has constituted a Taskforce which they prefer to call a 'Monitoring Team' to go round public healthcare facilities to ensure compliance with the road map set out by the Association by its members.

 What is however not clear is the composition of the Monitoring Team and when it will start its work.

 In a related development, a former Brong Ahafo Divisional Secretary of the GMA who is now with the Ashanti Division, Dr. Richard Selorm has denied categorically, the formation of a splinter group from the Ghana Medical Association following from the ongoing stance of the Association on the negotiation for documented and signed condition of service of medical doctors in the public service.

 Dr. Selorm told some journalists however, that the GMA will not stand in the way of any individual doctors who would want to break away since the Republican Constitution has provided for freedom of Association.

 He nonetheless advised that all the members of the GMA remain united to fight for the common good of all government-employed doctors.

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