Health ministry to consider additional duty hours allowance

Accra (Greater Accra) 9 March '99

The Ministry of Health on Monday asked health professionals who perform additional duty hours to submit justifications and in-puts for additional duty hours allowance to the Minister by Wednesday March 10, 1999 for consideration. A statement issued in Accra said this was agreed upon at an emergency meeting on Monday. The meeting was attended by the Minister, Mr Samuel Nuamah Donkor, his two deputies, chairman of the Parliamentary select committee, heads of division of the Ministry and professionals, other than doctors, to discuss issues regarding additional duty hours allowance. It said the meeting agreed that the groups would submit comments on the proposed conditions of service under the Ghana Health Service by the end of Monday, March 22, 1999 for finalisation and discussions with the Central Management Board.