Junior Doctors lash out at Pricewaterhouse Report

Accra (Greater Accra) 14 July '99

Junior doctors at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital say they are "completely dissatisfied and totally disappointed" at their basic salaries as shown in the new salary scales of the Pricewaterhouse Report.

This was the outcome of a meting of junior doctors on July nine on problems associated with the implementation of the Report.

A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday signed by Dr George Boateng Kyei, spokesman for the junior doctors, said: "We are shocked to notice that contrary to the many promises made by various government officials that the Pricewaterhouse report will solve our basic salary problems, it has rather come to worsen it".

"By this, government has not demonstrated any commitment to retain doctors in the country - the number of which is ever dwindling."

They urged the government to take serious steps to address the basic salary problems for doctors, and for all, "since the present salary can only be described as shameful.