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Kofi Annan calls for immediate end to doctors' strike

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  • Kojo T 11 years ago

    This SSS seems to have done more harm.Everyone believes the Oil money has arrived

  • BlindMan 11 years ago

    No; thus proving, our DOCTORS have sold their sold to Political 'gimmickry'. and it supports the charge of influence from a Political Party.
    Shame, shame, shame! Hoping it is not so, for the brightest in society would lose t ...
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  • Zangina 11 years ago

    You are really blind and must be deaf on top of that. Use a little bit of common sense and some integrity

  • Mahmoud 11 years ago

    None of the doctors benefits from the money Kofi Annan amassed from his services at the UN. He has no authority or moral right to order anybody to go back to work. He can only plead with them.

  • TerrblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    IF ANNAN CANNOT ORDER DOCTORS TO RETURN TO WORK, HE CAN ADVISE THEM TO DO SO. IF THEY FAIL, GOV'T CAN SACKL ALL OF THEM. PWERIOD. WE ARE FED UP WITH YOUR STUPID NONSENSE. ARE YOU THE ONLY ONES WHO NEED BETTER SALARIES? BULLS ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Author: AKONOBA...

    JOHN MAHAMA KILLED MILS. YOU DENIED MILS WAS SICK ALL THESE YEARS. YOU COMPELLED MILS TO STAND FOR A SECOND TERM KNOWING VERY WELL THAT MILS WAS NOT FIT TO CONTEST. YOU HID FROM GHANAIANS THE TRUE STATE ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    THE DOC SHOULD SERVE THE CHILDREN N EXPECTANT MOTHERS. DATS IT EVERYONE ELSE WILL DIE! BLAME MAHAMA

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    If gov't does not take revolutionary action, these nationwreckers will continue to take ghana for a ride.

  • AKONFEM PREZ MAHAMA 11 years ago

    WHY ANNAN DID NOT TELL MAHAMA TO GIVE THEM THEIR MONEY WITH ALL THE RESPECT,THINK THAT WILL BE VERY FINE,BUT WE KNOW MAHAMA DONT CARE PERIOD,IF MAHAMA CARE ANNAN LET HIM PAT THEM NOW NOW NOW THANKS ANNAN

  • Sasabonsam 11 years ago

    Wake up call for the government to find ways to stop CORRUPTION because a high percentage of the national cake ends up in the wrong pockets, as a result hard work does not pay in Ghana. Doctors, Teachers, Nurses, Cocoa farmer ...
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  • Wiliam 11 years ago

    Each time you point a finger remember the other 4! tHE WORDS OF WISDOM OF OUR RESPECTED COMPATRIOT KOFI ANNAN IS THAT WHAT CIVILED PEOPLE DO IS NEGOTIATE! LET DOCTORS KNOW THAT IT IS VERY WRONG TO USE PATIENTS AS PAWNS IN THI ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    SOMEONE TELL KOFI ANNAN AND JON MAHAMA THAT NIPA ENY3 NTAABO!

    THE DOCTORS AND NURSES SHOULD ONLY TREAT CHILDREN, EXPECTANT MOTHERS. EVERYONE ELSE MUST DIE....

  • BAAFOUR AKOTO 11 years ago

    what Kofi Annan has in common he was there when all this in-regularities during the election 2012

  • mahama 11 years ago

    Well said to that stupid. Common sense is common but not common to all people as to that stupid.

  • MV.Dodoo, usa 11 years ago

    Why that every government that comes, the teachers, doctors, only they and not engineers go on strike? How can we end these strikes. What is in their condition of services contract? This is all about politics.

  • mahama 11 years ago

    Not politics but based on cheating,dehumanization, respect failure on the part of people in the government. You can't look down doctors because you are parliamentarian

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

    Allow the Doctors to do what will suite them. They are also human being and they deserve better but not NDCians only to "chop" Ghana money. Okay?

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    isnt he a bit late in making such a request , wouldnt it have been fairer for the govt to find the money to pay them ? slavery ended over a century or so ago , can a man not work for a decent wage to support his family instea ...
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  • Who do you think so? 11 years ago

    Kofi Annan, Away with your hypocritical style of life!

  • Yaa Naa 11 years ago

    Rpberther Annane and her baby daddy are dupping people in the USA and that should be your concern. She will bring ur image into quetioning.

  • GOOD MOVE 11 years ago

    Anna should desist himself from this NDC style of goverace.

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    I hope our doctors will heed the call of Kofi Annan.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 11 years ago

    Hey, Kofi Annan,is it not too late for
    your coming in to ask the Doctors to
    consider or end the strike? We have loose somany souls already due to this
    Doctors strike, stich in time serves
    nine. You Project to the purblic ...
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  • Sunkwa 11 years ago

    The Doctors have no bills to pay ?--right?--wrong.Administration must explain why they don't have funds to pay these striking Doctors---do you expect them to feed their families on water?--which you even can't supply to Ghana ...
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  • wheel 11 years ago

    Political donkey. Wait until your frigging arse is dumped in the empty emergency ward without doctors.Political animal!

  • PASCO LEE 11 years ago

    THANK YOU MY GOOD FRIEND. THESE POLITICAL ANIMALS THINK THE COUNTRY IS FOR THEM. LET THEM CONTINUE AND THEY WILL SURELY PAY DEARLY FOR IT.

  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    YOUR OWN MOTHER WILL BE THE VICTIM OF THIS STRIKE AND YOU WILL SEE HOW IT IS TO GO TO A HOSPITAL WITHOUT A DOCTOR THERE TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR MOTHER. FOOLISH ANIMAL FROM NO WHERE.

  • TAMEY 11 years ago

    tell the nkomfem politicians to to give them they due share too. as a politician will insult a dr. for no reason, how long and knowledge does this sss politicians have to insult the old olevel/sixth form/university dr.

  • sam holland 11 years ago

    HASSAN RASTA KEEP COOL AND STAY IN YOUR AZUU HOUSE VERY SOON GERMAN GOVT WILL FISH YOU OUT WITH YOUR FUCKING COMMENT WHY YOU DONT TELL YOUR TANII BRO TO PAY THE DOC YOU ARE BRAINLESS FOOL.

  • Kwadzo 11 years ago

    SUNKWA, THE HAVE ALWAYS RECEIVED SALARIES AND I BELIEVE THAT IF U WERE A PROFESSIONAL YOU WOULD ASK ARE THEY THE ONLY WORKERS IN GHANA. THE DOCTORS ARE NOT SAYING THEIR SALARIES WERE NOT PAID THEM.

  • Old Dirty Bastard 11 years ago

    How much did he make in the Oil-for-Food program using his son as frontman.

  • me 11 years ago

    YOU THINK MENTIONING KOFI ANAN'S NAME WILL CHANGE THE SITUATION. HOW STUPID AND CHILDISH THESE NDC GOONS ARE. JUST FIX THE PROBLEM. YOU HAD MONEY TO AWARD YOURSELVES HUGE PAY RISE AND EVEN BACK DATED IT, SPLASHED OUT ON GIRLS ...
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  • wheel 11 years ago

    Only fools will politicise a situation like this. Are all doctors pro-NPP?

  • CONCERNED 11 years ago

    WHY DOES THE GOVT NOT ASK THE CUBAN GOVT TO SEND SOME DOCTORS IN GHANA AND POST THEM TO AFFECTED HOSPITALS TO MEET THE DEMAND UNTIL THE ISSUE WITH THE STRIKING DOCTORS ARE FULLY SOLVED.HUMAN LIVES MUST BE SAVED ALL ALL COST.T ...
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  • akwasi 11 years ago

    HELLO, URE NOT THINKING RIGHT. DO U KNOW HOW MUCH IT WILL COST TO SEND A DOCTOR FROM CUBA TO GHANA?IT WILL BE PROPER FOR THOSE GOONS TO PAY UP OR SHUT UP. IF THEY COULD PAY THE MINISTERS ALLOWANCES, WHY NOT THE DOCTORS

  • Nana 11 years ago

    Hello sir/madam. I thank you for your polite reply. However, I did not expect you to mark me by saying that I am not thinking right. I know under the revolution how hard and cheap Cubans and others helped us. All is about neg ...
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  • Kwadzo 11 years ago

    IF WE HAVE SELFISH PEOPLE WHO GO ON THE RAMPAGE SEEK POLITICAL POWER BY ALL MEANS EXPECTING TO WIN POWER AT ALL COST & MAKING THE NATION UNGOVERNABLE WHAT DO U SEE. POLITICIAN FROM ALL SIDE ARE THE SAME, SHARING AMONG THEMSEL ...
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  • duke 11 years ago

    Have you done your homework on the opportunity cost of sending for Cuban doctors? Surely it will cost less for the government to pay the arrears of pay to the doctors.

    You will fly in 200 doctors, for example; house them; ...
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  • genuinely interested 11 years ago

    Why Cuba?

  • BLAVEBOY 11 years ago

    Before anyone criticizes Kofi Annan, they must listen to the recording on Joy. The man said he does not know much about the doctors thing but encourage everyone to keep an open mind and go to the table. He never said directly ...
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  • wheel 11 years ago

    MY brother, this forum is full of brainless people. They politicise evrything. They will soon say that Kofi has been bribed by the NDC and that all doctors are pro-NPP.

  • Kojo T 11 years ago

    Best comment so far . Too many pople who look at everything as political

  • akwasi 11 years ago

    Kofi Annan, should play a fair negotiator. How do u expect doctors to go to work,when these people have gotten huge bonuses and turn around and say no money.

  • CONCERNED 11 years ago

    THE TONE OF COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE MEANS THIS STRIKE IS MOTIVATED BY OPPOSITION NPP.WHY DONT YOU CARE FOR HUMAN LIFE BUT WILLING TO EVEN LET PEOPLE DIE IN CRAZE FOR POLITICAL POWER?

  • AKANTO 11 years ago

    Who is Kofi Annan to call for immediate return of doctors. Wrong headline is not helpful.
    John Mahama is the president and would never use immediate to doctors why should Kofi Annah.

  • wheel 11 years ago

    Wait until your stupid arse is in the emergency ward soon.

  • George 11 years ago

    This is a simple case: The Doctors have worked or performed services to the nation. Consequently, the government of Ghana HAVE TO pay them. The government should use the same means it employed to get money to pay the presiden ...
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  • Egya Blay 11 years ago

    Maslow's theory of hierarchy should be applied in every aspects of governance but here in Ghana the psychological needs which is the first part of the pyramid is not met. These thieves get into the political scenes just to lo ...
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  • Asiakwaso 11 years ago

    Anang must shut up! Haved you commented on the corruption going on in the NDC!

  • MAA BENA 11 years ago

    ALL THOSE WHO ARE INSULTING KOFI ANNAN ARE FOOLS U. HAVE NO RESPECT FOR ELDERS.LEARN YOUR MANNERS WELL. IDIOTS.

  • Daniel 11 years ago

    I totally agree with you Kwame. In fact we've had enough of you so call doctors for placing human lives at the bottom of you long list agenda. You guys need to be a little bit sensitive and empathise with dying patients. The ...
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  • Kwadzo 11 years ago

    THANK YOU DAN, FOR ME LET THEM CONTINUE OR GO FOR THE GREENER PASTURES AS IT IS REFERED TO. WHAT I KNOW IS THAT, IN THIS WORLD WHAT BELONG TO YOU STILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THEM SOMETIMES BUT NOT COMPARING YOUR WORK SITUATIONS T ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 11 years ago

    Please,ask this incompetent Gov`t to be sincere to the electorate and stop telling lies!Tell this insensitive Gov`t to pay the doctors what is due them so that they can resume work.Make a call to the Gov`t and not to the doct ...
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  • Joe Turkey 11 years ago

    I can't wait to cast my next vote. I have never read anytime, when the NDC government said the doctor's demands were undeserved. So what is the issue? We don't have enough money to pay some workers their due compensations and ...
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  • KG 11 years ago

    who is giving false hope to innocent folks.you lost election go ahead and die somewhere.why take Ghanaias with you?

  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 11 years ago

    YOU WILL STAY LONG WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR LIFE. NPPs ARE THE COST OF ALL THESE STRIKE. BUT THEY WILL PAY FOR IT.

  • SON OF GHANA 11 years ago

    THE GOVERNMENT IS AN ABSOLUTE JOKE. YOU HAVE SHARED ALL THE MONEY TO YOUR SELVES
    AND WHEN A DOCTOR IS DEMANDING WHAT IS DUE TO HIM, WE COMPLAIN. THEY ARE NOT ASKING TO RAPE THE NATIONAL COFFERS AS THE NDC'S ARE DOING. PLEASE ...
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  • MATAHEKO 11 years ago

    THESE DOCTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID YEARS AGO IF THEY WERE MPs FIGHTING FOR THEIR EX-GRATIA PAYMENTS, SALARIES AND CAR LOANS ADVANCES.

    THANK HEAVENS JUSTICE KPEGAH HAS BEEN BOLD ENOUGH TO EXPOSE ALL THOSE FAKES PARADING THE ...
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  • DEDE 11 years ago

    INSENSITIVE GOVERMENT

  • Skotsman 11 years ago

    We will like to appeal to the doctors. Please look at he children for us. PLease in the name of GOD, kindly consider taking care of children at least.
    @Government, you need to be responsible and stop the childish behaviour. ...
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  • Shabo 11 years ago

    Please let us watch the clip showing Former UN boss Kofi Annan calling for immediate end to the ongoing strike by members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA).

    Kofi will never use such words.

  • Amanda 11 years ago

    Honorable Kofi Anna, I have always love. I love your words of wisdom to the Government health administrator. I love you.

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    See how NDC and Mahama are destroying Ghana

  • Oppong 11 years ago

    IT IS NPP WHICH IS INCITING ALL THESE STRIKES. SHAME ON NPP.

  • Tibaa 11 years ago

    If I were Busumuru Kofi Annan, I will stay out of this imbroglio!!! Why? Because the controled looting by our parliamentarians is just mind boggling. Doctors, teachers and others need to eat too. If the national pie is well-c ...
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  • L'Osservatore Ghanaiensis 11 years ago

    This is morally wrong on the part of the government and a slap in the face when it can pay the MPs stupid bonuses and leave the poor people without doctors. Mr. Annan should balance his request with admonition to the governm ...
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  • KUKRUDU 11 years ago

    My feeling is our Doctors are underpaid. Whilst in Germany - at MARIEN HOSPITAL, BOCHUM, WATTENSCHEID, GERMANY - A ONCE HEAD OF THE GHANA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (trained in germany) arrived at the above Hospital BEGGING to work ...
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  • JOE 11 years ago

    In the U.S doctors earn more when they work in private practice. They earn less when they work for the gov't. If they want more money they should open their private hospitals.

  • Sam 11 years ago

    I think the best way the Government will pay attention to the Doctors is for the doctors to play it hard on the parlimentarians and the MPs. That is to say they should refuse to give care to the parimenterians and the MPs eve ...
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  • sikdo 11 years ago

    look u a ghanian but u dont cure no u talk tel mama to step down he is not the presdant of Ghana he is thief

  • OSEI STEPHEN,NORWAY 11 years ago

    SIR, ANNAN THIS THIS NOT A NEW CASE,YOU KNOW WHAT OUR DOCTORS AND TEACHERS ARE LOOKING FOR. ALL THIS STRIKE, IS ABOUT FAKE PRESIDENT IN OUR COUNTRY GHANA AND TOO MUCH CUROPTION.WHEN MAMA GHANA

  • DENNIS AVOY, Italy 11 years ago

    THESE HEARTLESS DOCTORS SEEING CHILDREN DIE CAN EASILY GIVE LETHAL INJECTION TO PATIENTS, AT THE END OF THE DAY WHAT THEY WILL GET AFTER THE PATIENTS HAVE DIED WILL NOT BE ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE MONEY JUDAS ISCARIOT RECEIVED ...
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  • Abass manchester 11 years ago

    Oh Allah we pray that you eradicate those corrupt politicians from the system they are greedy,they steal the money and those who are more important in ghana are rather suffering.one day one day things would change.

  • DEMOCRAT-USA 11 years ago

    Doctors' strike is a crime against humanity, and a violation of "The Good Samaritan" principles. The country has invested so much in them---such selfishness must not be tolerated, period.

  • CAPE-COAST BOY 11 years ago

    WOFA KOFI ANNAN,THE DOCTOR'S NEED THERE MONEY SO STOP PLAYING

  • James Attoquayefio 11 years ago

    Ghanaian politics is DIRTY Full of insult please avoid it. You have been President of the whole world. Ghana is a village

  • Kwaku A.Danso 11 years ago

    He can do better if he cares. he is not supporting any party or leaders.
    This is not politics, but trying to negotiate.

  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    Would the doctors who are on strike collect their salaries for the month of April 2013?

  • STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 11 years ago

    As much as we respect the noble profession of Doctors and appreciate their contribution to maintenance of healthy human resource for the nation’s development, it gets to a point where their attitude begin to be a nuisance j ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    cut the saLARIES OF THE USELESS MPS,MINISTERS. LOOK AT HOW FAT HANNAH TETTEH IS? WHY DOES SHE NEED MORE MONEY FOR? GIVE MONEY TO A WOMAN N SHE STARTS MISBEHAVING....TEACHERS, DOCTORS, NURSES MUST STRIKE TILL THEY GET THEIR SH ...
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  • Obaapa 11 years ago

    I very much agree with his Excellency KA. when 2 elephants fights, it is the grass that suffers . And when 2 umbrellas fight, it is the air that suffers.

  • Kwaku A.Danso 11 years ago

    EDITOR'S NOTE:
    The name Kofi Annan carries a lot of weight. However, since the former UN Secretary General retired he has totally refused to comment on any issue relating to his mother-land Ghana. Some have wondered if he co ...
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  • Sankofa 11 years ago

    Danso, have we as a nation made the best use of Kofi Annan?

    He is the Chancellor of the University of Ghana. He attends important state occasions such as the opening of parliament. He requested Norway to advise government ...
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  • GHANABA 1 11 years ago

    This coward and selfish Annan should shut his mouth because he has headed the whole world and did not remember he was born fed and bred in Ghana.So in my opinion Annan or whoever he may call himself should shut up and let gha ...
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  • owusu derrick 11 years ago

    without GOD doctors cannot anything because they said that their capability of treating patient is 90 pts so where is the 10pts it means that without GOD they can,t so what ever they will do it will end because it the LORD ...
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  • princedela london.n 11 years ago

    The blood of those who will loose their life because of the doctors strike should be upon the head of the soo called n p p doctors . Amen

  • Sankofa 11 years ago

    Doctors, please listen to our eminent son and go back to work.

    Whatever your grievances, you are putting innocent lives at risk. Are your wage demands worth a single life?

    Please think again and act in the best interest ...
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  • Sanatama 11 years ago

    I respect Kofi Annan but with all due respect in this instance he is wrong.If anything at all he should let his counsel come to bear and rather tell Mahama and the Asiedu Nketia who is only good at insulting to throw dust int ...
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  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 11 years ago

    GOOD MAN FROM AFRICA
    ================================
    DON-T LET THOSE AT THE TOP TURN
    US AGAINST EACH OTHER THE DEMOCRACY
    AND THE ELECTIONS IN GHANA HAS SHOWN AND DEMONSTRATED THAT AFRICA WILL
    INVARIABLY B ...
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  • oyame ahu wo 11 years ago

    1000yrs of au s wat did u achieved 4gh pls

  • K.B.HOLLAND 11 years ago

    i believe the need of the doctors must also be met, cut those huge amount from the mp's to the doctors,

  • AKONFEM PREZ MAHAMA 11 years ago

    WHY MAHAMA DID NOT GIVE THEM THEIR MONEY UP TO NOW,IF MAHAMA REALY CARE FOR SOME OF GHANIANS,BIG SHAME TO MAHAMA AS SOO CALL PREZ

  • osei hwedie 11 years ago

    Asiedu Nketia and his thieves should give some of their BOOTY to pay for the Doctors. Its always the small man who suffers, Atta Mils, Rawlings and CO go to south Africa for Med Care, THey should all be ashamed of them- selv ...
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