Prof. Akosa slams GMA over strike

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princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Doctors at a hospital in Takoradi, Ghana have gone on strike. Hospital officials say they will find out what the Doctors' demands are as soon as they can get a pharmacist over there to read the picket signs!"

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Doctors at a hospital in Takoradi, Ghana have gone on strike. Hospital officials say they will find out what the Doctors' demands are as soon as they can get a pharmacist over there to read the picket signs!"

If its not Doctors it is Pharmacist and these greedy bastards are hijacking the Country.
Its like a bank robber pulling a gun to your head and says"Give me the money you motherfucker or else"?
They are now like a rapist telling you to remove your panties to satisfy their pleasure.
Asiedu nkasee 11 years ago

If you are a clever professor tell mahama to use the judgment debts to pay the doctors

If you are a clever professor tell mahama to use the judgment debts to pay the doctors
kofi gray 11 years ago

The leadership of GMA is NPPish so we understand what is happening. JM was only a caretakr Prez and just assumed full control. Just give a few months? Abaaaa! JM must use the weapon of no work no pay

The leadership of GMA is NPPish so we understand what is happening. JM was only a caretakr Prez and just assumed full control. Just give a few months? Abaaaa! JM must use the weapon of no work no pay
SHAMO 11 years ago

IF NDC DONT HAVE BRAINS, IF NDC DONT THINK ABOUT GHANA AND ARE ABLE TO AFFORD 45 NEW PARLIAMENTARIANS AND ARE ABLE TO GIVE THEM $50,000 EACH PLUS THEIR SALARY KNOWING WE ARE POOR COUNTRY THEN THEY SHOULD SHUT UP AND PAID THE ...
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IF NDC DONT HAVE BRAINS, IF NDC DONT THINK ABOUT GHANA AND ARE ABLE TO AFFORD 45 NEW PARLIAMENTARIANS AND ARE ABLE TO GIVE THEM $50,000 EACH PLUS THEIR SALARY KNOWING WE ARE POOR COUNTRY THEN THEY SHOULD SHUT UP AND PAID THE DOCTORS!! THE DOCTORS ARE EVEN GOOD TO STAY AND WORK UNDER THIS STUPID GOVT
If doctors really deserve..... 11 years ago

This is just an attempt to win the people's favour. Why don't you say somethng that will encourage the gov't to ratify the the circumstances but to shit on the doctors and turn the people's enmity to them? Unsatisfying doctor ...
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This is just an attempt to win the people's favour. Why don't you say somethng that will encourage the gov't to ratify the the circumstances but to shit on the doctors and turn the people's enmity to them? Unsatisfying doctor is worse than an armed robber. Say something sensible.
SUICIDE BOMBER 11 years ago

I thought professors are always wise
What is gov't doing with our money?

This is just an attempt to win the people's favour. Why don't you say somethng that will encourage the gov't to ratify the the circumstances but to ...
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I thought professors are always wise
What is gov't doing with our money?

This is just an attempt to win the people's favour. Why don't you say somethng that will encourage the gov't to ratify the the circumstances but to shit on the doctors and turn the people's enmity to them? Unsatisfying doctor is worse than an armed robber. Say something sensible.
SUICIDE BOMBER 11 years ago

Use the money to satisfy the citizens and then the country will move to high income level. If I hear them say " ghana is middle income Country", I just thing these are low-esteem nigas. The people are poor, the Country is und ...
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Use the money to satisfy the citizens and then the country will move to high income level. If I hear them say " ghana is middle income Country", I just thing these are low-esteem nigas. The people are poor, the Country is undeveloped, how come the country moved to middle income?
SUICIDE BOMBER 11 years ago

Do you understand me?

Do you understand me?
Boateng 11 years ago

Winning the people's favor after they are dead?

Winning the people's favor after they are dead?
Boateng 11 years ago

Get the Cuban Doctors, Get some from India and Pakistan and from elsewhere. Get the nurses to help and make sure they have no passports to leave the country until they pay for their education.

Now let all pay for their e ...
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Get the Cuban Doctors, Get some from India and Pakistan and from elsewhere. Get the nurses to help and make sure they have no passports to leave the country until they pay for their education.

Now let all pay for their education, no more subsidies, there and then they can go anywhere they want after graduation.

No hostage situation any more. Education should be cash and carry. Everybody wants free education like the free High School. This is what you get from them when they graduate?
KERL 11 years ago

asiedu you are just a big fool.judgment debt nonsence did not win you the election yet every day all you know is judgment debt

asiedu you are just a big fool.judgment debt nonsence did not win you the election yet every day all you know is judgment debt
Boateng 11 years ago

I hope one of your love ones does not get into a situation where he/she needs that kind of care without which she/he will die. Do you still care? You would play politics with their lives?

I hope you are not in Ghana no ...
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I hope one of your love ones does not get into a situation where he/she needs that kind of care without which she/he will die. Do you still care? You would play politics with their lives?

I hope you are not in Ghana now? How would you feel being in a car accident and the doctors refusing you attention and you dying slowly while your love ones remain by your side hopelessly staring at you?
Obosomanketre Nam Brebre 8 years ago

SO BE IT, CONSEQUENCE OF SILLY VOTING, OF BEING BRIBED TO VOTE STUPIDLY, WE MUST SUFFER FOR THAT TO LEARN THE HARD WAY. THE TOIL OF HARD WORKING NOT BE IN VAIN.

SO BE IT, CONSEQUENCE OF SILLY VOTING, OF BEING BRIBED TO VOTE STUPIDLY, WE MUST SUFFER FOR THAT TO LEARN THE HARD WAY. THE TOIL OF HARD WORKING NOT BE IN VAIN.
DOUBLE TROUBLE 11 years ago

What about the parliamentarians who doubled their salaries and yet fail to turn up parliamentary proceedings?

What about the parliamentarians who doubled their salaries and yet fail to turn up parliamentary proceedings?
Boateng 11 years ago

They do not deserve a pesewa!

They do not deserve a pesewa!
Kwadzo 11 years ago

YOU ARE RIGHT MAN! WE ALL WENT TO THE SAME UNIVERSITIES WHY DO THEY THINK THEY ARE IMPORTANT.

YOU ARE RIGHT MAN! WE ALL WENT TO THE SAME UNIVERSITIES WHY DO THEY THINK THEY ARE IMPORTANT.
Boateng 11 years ago

True. Ask the question again. Without the Biomedical Engineer, the Computer Engineer, the Electronics Engineer, the Pharmacists, the Chemists, the Scientists, name them, how can they beat their chests like they are doing ...
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True. Ask the question again. Without the Biomedical Engineer, the Computer Engineer, the Electronics Engineer, the Pharmacists, the Chemists, the Scientists, name them, how can they beat their chests like they are doing now?

They should honor their profession and not take their patients hostage. They can make their demands by not endangering the lives of the very people they trained and took their oaths to care for.
Obosomanketre Nam Brebre 8 years ago

WHY DIDN'T YOU CHOOSE TO BECOME A Dr AND WORK WITHOUT SALARIES OR A?LOWANCES FOR GHANA? You wanted the easy profession or short cut, think again.

WHY DIDN'T YOU CHOOSE TO BECOME A Dr AND WORK WITHOUT SALARIES OR A?LOWANCES FOR GHANA? You wanted the easy profession or short cut, think again.
kojo 11 years ago

I think that every worker has the right to use any legitimate means to have his concerns addressed. When my eight month old son cries I knew he needs something if not hurt, that is his way of protesting and asking for attenti ...
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I think that every worker has the right to use any legitimate means to have his concerns addressed. When my eight month old son cries I knew he needs something if not hurt, that is his way of protesting and asking for attention or something. But sometimes its get a little irritated if can't figure what the child wants or do not agree he shd have what he is crying for. Comparing it to the doctors strike action, I think the doctors issue have not been put into its proper perpective, various questions need to be ask and properly answered in order to make progress.
1. What is the doctors current market premium and allowances
2. How much are these in monetary terms per month?
3. How much are they asking for in monetary terms?
4. It is something the country can afford and what will be the implication for other health workers who may come looking for higher market premium - Of course people will cite the gangantuan salary increase for article 71 office holders to justify the doctors action but I dare say that all unjustifable quest to hold the nation to ransom and make the poor to pay for the action and inaction of the elite is so wrong.
Kaka 11 years ago

I will not be surprised if it is found out that NPP is behind this GMA strike action!

I will not be surprised if it is found out that NPP is behind this GMA strike action!
FORTURE TELLER 11 years ago

I AM BEGGING NPP. THIS TIME SPARE US PREZ MAHAMA. YOU HAVE STARTED AGAIN JUST LIKE YOU DID TO THE LATE PREZ ATTA MILLS. WHY DONT YOU LEARN? YOU VIRTUALLY HUNTED DOWN PROF ATTA MILLS TILL HE SUCCUMBED TO YOUR DEATH SENTENCE. Y ...
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I AM BEGGING NPP. THIS TIME SPARE US PREZ MAHAMA. YOU HAVE STARTED AGAIN JUST LIKE YOU DID TO THE LATE PREZ ATTA MILLS. WHY DONT YOU LEARN? YOU VIRTUALLY HUNTED DOWN PROF ATTA MILLS TILL HE SUCCUMBED TO YOUR DEATH SENTENCE. YOU HAVE NOW TURNED ON PREZ J MAHAMA. EVERYBODY CAN FEEL THE JEALOUSY AND THE HATRED IN NPPS HEART. WHY???? BECAUSE OF THE WAY MEMBERS OR NPP - ESPECIALLY THOSE IN ASHANTI REGION - ARGUE THEIR CASE IN PUBLIC, ONE WONDER IF THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET WITH BRAINS. THEY WILL SHOUT AND INSULT YOU IF YOU ARE NOT SEEING WHAT THEY SEE. MOST PEOPLE ARE MOVING AWAY AND ALIENATING THESE PEOPLE GRADUALLY. VERY SOON WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A ONE PARTY STATE WHICH IS NOT GOOD FOR GHANA. BUT WE CANNOT HELP IT. THE ATTITUDE OF THESE NPP PEOPLE IS A REAL BOTHER TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA. ONE DAY ONE DAY THEY WILL SET THIS COUNTRY ABLAZE, UNLESS ITS CURRENT LEADERSHIP IS CHANGED. OH PATAPAA PAA NIE
the new pope 11 years ago

the strike action by doctors is to extreme a move to be taken but it is sad to realize how much money politicians are splashing around for doing no work and doctors are struggling.drs work long hrs sacrificing time with their ...
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the strike action by doctors is to extreme a move to be taken but it is sad to realize how much money politicians are splashing around for doing no work and doctors are struggling.drs work long hrs sacrificing time with their families to take care of the poorest and sickest in society,the most brilliant of our colleages in school pursue this profession.drs operate on AIDS and hepatitis patients and stand the risk of beig stuck by operating needles and contracting these conditions in the process.our drs are fleeing to the developed world in droves.cant we as human beings realize that the least we can do for these drs who stay in Ghana either becos they are patriotic or because they cannot leave the country is to compensate them well financially.also to the doctors ,you have chosen to stay in Ghana knowing the conditions there so don't vent your anger and frustration on the innocent Ghanaian.get up and go to work right now if you have a conscience and continue to negotiate with government on the side
okukuseku 11 years ago

bcos u are now a politician look at ur behaviour why didnt u remain a doc hypocrite mother fucker\\////

bcos u are now a politician look at ur behaviour why didnt u remain a doc hypocrite mother fucker\\////
Conventional Youth. 11 years ago

he is still a Medical Practitioner my profession. Let your words be seasoned with salt and covered with graciousness my beloved Ghanaians.

he is still a Medical Practitioner my profession. Let your words be seasoned with salt and covered with graciousness my beloved Ghanaians.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

What do you get if you take an elephant into the city Hospital?
A: Free Parking

What do you get if you take an elephant into the city Hospital?
A: Free Parking
Quophie 11 years ago

Is Prof Akosa telling us that doctors never went on strike during his tenure as GMA President? Give us a break. When Parliamentarians threatened they will not debate any bills till their salaries were increased, was that not ...
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Is Prof Akosa telling us that doctors never went on strike during his tenure as GMA President? Give us a break. When Parliamentarians threatened they will not debate any bills till their salaries were increased, was that not going to affect ordinary Ghanaians? I hope he will have the guts to say same whenever any group of workers go on strike.
NA-DAD 11 years ago

Poor you! No sense of shame. Comparing apples to pineapples! Are you a doctor? If yes, God have mercy on your patients

Poor you! No sense of shame. Comparing apples to pineapples! Are you a doctor? If yes, God have mercy on your patients
JERRY TAMAKLOE 11 years ago

AKOSA HYPOCRISY IS BAD AND U LOOK TOO SENSIBLE AND DECENT TO JUMP INTO THIS FRAY. BE ADVISED THESE ARE YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND YOUR NATURAL CONSTITUENCY. U MUST BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO ENCOURAGE THOSE OF US WHO RESPECT U TO WALK A ...
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AKOSA HYPOCRISY IS BAD AND U LOOK TOO SENSIBLE AND DECENT TO JUMP INTO THIS FRAY. BE ADVISED THESE ARE YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND YOUR NATURAL CONSTITUENCY. U MUST BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO ENCOURAGE THOSE OF US WHO RESPECT U TO WALK AWAY FROM U. PLEASE DON'T FALL FOR CHEAP POLITICAL GARBAGE BECAUSE THAT IS A SURE WAY TO SINK AND SINK VERY SWIFTLY. A SENSIBLE WORD TO THE WISE MUST BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE SAME SAME VEIN. IF THINGS START COMING OUT U WILL RUN FROM ALL THIS UNWANTED PUBLICITY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THINK NOT TWICE BUT EVERYDAY AND STAY AWAY FROM ALL THIS COZ IT'S ABOUT TIME.
MANTSE 11 years ago

Prof. Akosa is right that Doctors should not hold the poor Ghanaian hostage and that their target should be those in Authority who have engaged in feet dragging over the past several months.

The Doctors, action to me, is a ...
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Prof. Akosa is right that Doctors should not hold the poor Ghanaian hostage and that their target should be those in Authority who have engaged in feet dragging over the past several months.

The Doctors, action to me, is a desparate move to get them heard.

Must it come to this? Why could Govt not treat this matter with dispatch as it did in the case of the parliamentarians? Being a Doctor and a Politician, Prof. Akosa is on either side of the issue. Prof,. you have told us what the Doctors must not do and I agree, particularly, as strikes hurt innocent people and those whose conduct occasions the strike are somewhat insulated from its ill effects. What do you propose the Politicians must do in this instance to mitigate the situation?

Agitation by subvented organizations for more money became a matter of when, and not if, upon the approval of the pay hike for parliamentarians.

I am not suggesting in anyway that Parliamentarians are not deserving of the compensation package they now have. The phrase 'equal pay for equal work', I am sure, applies to Doctors and parliamentarians alike.

WHO IN GHANA WOULD TELL ME THAT THE WORK OF A PARLIAMENTARIAN IS MORE IMPORTANT OR MORE DEMANDING THAN THAT OF THE DOCTOR? But that is what the respective Compensation Packages seem to be suggesting.

Did we not govern Ghana for years without a parliament? Can we, on the other hand, have a Ghana without Doctors?

Now, there are more people in Ghana wanting to be Parliamentarian, not for the Public Service element of it but for the freebies. Apart from this handsome salary you get committee allowances, get to travel in business class and the Doctor travels coach.

So therefore, when that Freshman Doctor who works about 12 hours a day, can be called anytime in the night for duty finds himself perching with a friend or colleague for a while and makes 1,500 cedis a month but his counterpart freshman parliamentarian receives a whopping 50,000 cedis for super annuated rent and collects 7,300 cedis at the end of each month, and would not even show up in parliament for the average 4 hour work day, or when he shows up he is seen dozing or contributing little to the work of the house, then 'Equal Work for Equal Pay' becomes meaningless.

Yes, The Doctors were educated at the Taxpayers' expense. But so were the Parliamentarians and us all. Yes, it costs more to train doctors, but it is only when you have excelled that government decides to spend more on you to become a doctor.

Must we push our doctors to leave the country for better conditions of service? Doctors have that option to exercise.
Parliamentarians do not have the option of going to parliament outside Ghana and this seriously constrains their market value.

The 'Free Money' must not be shared among people doing little or nothing in political positions while those who opt for Real Public Service are paid a pittance.

I am sure if the average Medical Doctor is paid what parliamentaians make, he will LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK each month, will never dread being called in the middle of the night for an emergency and the Ghanaian patient will be the true beneficiary of quality service
Sankofa 8 years ago

How can any proper negotiations be held when doctors are on strike and putting lives at risk?

It would have strengthened their hand if they had called off the strike and gone to the negotiation table.

How can any proper negotiations be held when doctors are on strike and putting lives at risk?

It would have strengthened their hand if they had called off the strike and gone to the negotiation table.
Nobody 11 years ago

I wished this man was our president.

I wished this man was our president.
Aka 11 years ago

Did the Gma ever go on strke when you where president of the association?

Did the Gma ever go on strke when you where president of the association?
Chris 11 years ago

Iam so shocked of this strike action despite a pending court action against the GMA on the illegality of strike actions by GMA. THE LEADERSHIP WILL BE DRAGGED TO COURT SOON FOR CONTEMPT.

Iam so shocked of this strike action despite a pending court action against the GMA on the illegality of strike actions by GMA. THE LEADERSHIP WILL BE DRAGGED TO COURT SOON FOR CONTEMPT.
mathias 11 years ago

it beat my imagination to think doctors will enjoy any benefit that will come out of this unfortunate action. Doctors are happy to spill the blood of Ghanaians just for some small change. Doctors can still go on strike for a ...
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it beat my imagination to think doctors will enjoy any benefit that will come out of this unfortunate action. Doctors are happy to spill the blood of Ghanaians just for some small change. Doctors can still go on strike for a day or two to make their point but they will rather stay out indefinately until their demands are met irrespective of how long it will take. We are talking about human lives here, the doctors must realise that.
FORTURE TELLER 11 years ago

WHY SHOULD PROF AKOSA WORRY HIS HEAD. ALL THE STRIKES HAVE BEEN INSTIGATED BY THE NPP. THEY HAVE PRAYED THAT OTHERS WOULD JOIN SPONTANOUSLY BUT THE GOVERNMENT QUICKLY MOVES IN TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS ANYTIME THEY STARTED ONE. ...
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WHY SHOULD PROF AKOSA WORRY HIS HEAD. ALL THE STRIKES HAVE BEEN INSTIGATED BY THE NPP. THEY HAVE PRAYED THAT OTHERS WOULD JOIN SPONTANOUSLY BUT THE GOVERNMENT QUICKLY MOVES IN TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS ANYTIME THEY STARTED ONE. LOOK AT THE WATER SHORTAGES, POWER SHORTAGES, HAWKING ON STREETS AND PAVEMENTS AND ALL THE STREET DEMONSTRATIONS. THEY ARE ALL THE MAKING OF THE NPP. I SAID THIS DURING THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE 7TH DECEMBER ELECTIONS AND SAID GHANAIANS WERE AWARE OF THIS AND WOULD PUNISH THE NPP FOR THAT. TRUE TO MY WORDS GHANAIANS VOTED AGAINST THE NPP. THEY HAVE NOT LEARNT THEIR LESSONS AND ARE STILL AT IT. THEY ARE NOT AWARE THAT IT IS THE NPP THAT GHANAIANS ARE ANGRY WITH AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT WHENEVER ANY MISHAPS LIKE FIRE OUTBREAK IN THE MARKETS, ETC BEFALL GHANA. NO MATTER HOW MUCH MISCHIEVE THEY CAUSE BY SABOTAGING POWER AND WATER SUPPLY, HEALTH, EDUCATION ETC, GHANAIANS HAVE RESOLVED NEVER TO ALLOW NPP AND THEIR AKUFO ADDO NEAR THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAT, ESPECIALLY THE GHANA OIL. I LOOK AT THE FACES OF SUCH PEOPLE LIKE SIR JOHN, OSAFO MARFO, OBENG ASAMOAH, OKYERE DARKO,AND OTHERS ASSEMBLING AT THE SUPREME COURT, WITH AKUFO ADDO AND HIS FALSE SMILE(this smile he has practiced over years to trick GHANAIANS that he is a peace loving man), I SHUDDER, AND WONDER IF THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTABILIZE GHANA AND IMPOSE AKUFO ADDO ONTO US SO THAT THEY WILL BE GIVEN VARIOUS POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT? GOD FORBID.
Kwame Aidoo 11 years ago

Your failure has undoubtedly contributed to this national crises.What have you told the govt; and what did you see was going to affect the health industry? Your so called meetings have been waste of time at the expense of inn ...
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Your failure has undoubtedly contributed to this national crises.What have you told the govt; and what did you see was going to affect the health industry? Your so called meetings have been waste of time at the expense of innocent lives.You fools know to go abroad for medicsl treatment.What about the 5year old girl in the rote village? Can you answer this; otherwise proof your are s professor!
Kofi Nti Mensah 11 years ago

Opoku Adusei, You say worst thing to come? give us DDT injection we are fed up with you.

Opoku Adusei, You say worst thing to come? give us DDT injection we are fed up with you.
Kwesi Guyman 11 years ago

VIPs in Ghana are treated at King's College in the United Kingdom or other hospitals in Europe and the USA.These Vips do not suffer even if hospitals go on strike indefinitely.It is only the poor souls who suffer and they a ...
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VIPs in Ghana are treated at King's College in the United Kingdom or other hospitals in Europe and the USA.These Vips do not suffer even if hospitals go on strike indefinitely.It is only the poor souls who suffer and they are the ones that voted NDC into power despite Rawlings's advice that they were corrupt.
We can't therefore complain.PPP had better plans.Check it out.
Koo Nimo 11 years ago

Are there no laws in Ghana that ban those working in essential service sectors such as doctors, nurses, police, immigration services, teachers, etc, from going on strike? If not, it's time to think of introducing legislation ...
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Are there no laws in Ghana that ban those working in essential service sectors such as doctors, nurses, police, immigration services, teachers, etc, from going on strike? If not, it's time to think of introducing legislation to check these politically-motivated and hostage-taking wild strikes.
abena 11 years ago

THE DOCTORS ARE EDUCATED WITH THE TAX PAYERS MONEY AND NOW LOOK AT THE WAY THEY ARE TREATING ORDINARY GHANAIANS, WE LIVE TO SEE

THE DOCTORS ARE EDUCATED WITH THE TAX PAYERS MONEY AND NOW LOOK AT THE WAY THEY ARE TREATING ORDINARY GHANAIANS, WE LIVE TO SEE
Kojo K. 11 years ago

every doctor on strike is a potential MURDERER

every doctor on strike is a potential MURDERER
Hazor 11 years ago

It is sad to hear doctors strike is like kidnaping ordinary Ghanaians.This very serious allegation coming from Prof.Akosa.The president and the parliamentarians gave themselves rise from GHc5,000 to GHc12,000 and from GHc3,oo ...
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It is sad to hear doctors strike is like kidnaping ordinary Ghanaians.This very serious allegation coming from Prof.Akosa.The president and the parliamentarians gave themselves rise from GHc5,000 to GHc12,000 and from GHc3,ooo to GHc7,000 and GHc50,ooo rent allowance to parliamentarians and the government is paying bogus judgement to NDC sympathizers and individual and the NDC Administration is rather kidnap Ghanaians and turn them to common boys without previlage.
Nii Akwei 11 years ago

Can anybody answer why the long delay?

Can anybody answer why the long delay?
Kodwo. 11 years ago

Thank you Professor. You've said it all.

In the first place, Doctors, the Police and The Army should never be allowed to go on strike; to some extent the fire service too.

As you rightly pointed out, at worst they can w ...
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Thank you Professor. You've said it all.

In the first place, Doctors, the Police and The Army should never be allowed to go on strike; to some extent the fire service too.

As you rightly pointed out, at worst they can work to rule.

Most of them were trained at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian, only to qualify and turn their backs on the citezenry.

When will we Africans learn?

Doctors are accorded acolade and treated with respect; some people actually will do almost anything to become doctors, just for that.

I am sure their living conditions are way above many in the civil service and to pay back the respect people have for their profession, they must be seen to deserve it, by not engaging in such actions that will lead to the deaths of many.
Serwah Akoto 11 years ago

Akosa must shut up. When we need an authority on sex with housemaids we will let him know. For now he is only trying to catch the eye of Government for a position. He has no credibility whatsoever

Akosa must shut up. When we need an authority on sex with housemaids we will let him know. For now he is only trying to catch the eye of Government for a position. He has no credibility whatsoever
C.O.D 11 years ago

This so-called prof is good for nothing. If you really want to get rid of a problem, you must get to the root cause of it, period. The blame must be squarely laid at the door steps of our corrupt, inefficient and incompetent ...
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This so-called prof is good for nothing. If you really want to get rid of a problem, you must get to the root cause of it, period. The blame must be squarely laid at the door steps of our corrupt, inefficient and incompetent leaders.
Abodraku Peace 11 years ago

what is your sugestion my presidents speaker?

what is your sugestion my presidents speaker?
Buttocks, Bortianor 11 years ago

Those of us who protect these doctors are also withdrawing our services because our employers have not gone by arrangements we have reached earlier. The doctors must therefore be prepared for physical attacks on their live fr ...
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Those of us who protect these doctors are also withdrawing our services because our employers have not gone by arrangements we have reached earlier. The doctors must therefore be prepared for physical attacks on their live from anyone as we all prepare to take the law into our own hands. We are all learning from the doctors.
Kofi 11 years ago

I didn't know doctors are provided with security detail now. I was a doctor in Ghana and never needed that! Anyway to the idiot who just wrote that, everyone is entitled to self-defence so defend yourself when you are attacke ...
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I didn't know doctors are provided with security detail now. I was a doctor in Ghana and never needed that! Anyway to the idiot who just wrote that, everyone is entitled to self-defence so defend yourself when you are attacked.
Osei Yao 11 years ago

SHAMELESS FORTUNE HUNTERS ARE HOLDING THE LIVES OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZEN S AS RANSOM IN PAY NEGOTIATIONS. IT IS DESPICABLE AND UNWORTHY OF THE NOBLE PROFESSION. BUT THEN MOST STUDIED MEDICINE TO MAKE MONEY, THAT IA ALL.

SHAMELESS FORTUNE HUNTERS ARE HOLDING THE LIVES OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZEN S AS RANSOM IN PAY NEGOTIATIONS. IT IS DESPICABLE AND UNWORTHY OF THE NOBLE PROFESSION. BUT THEN MOST STUDIED MEDICINE TO MAKE MONEY, THAT IA ALL.
mensiwa 11 years ago

It is about time the government give the doctors and any public or civil servant the option to choose between the government work and private. They can opt to leave the job if the salary is not good. The government should g ...
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It is about time the government give the doctors and any public or civil servant the option to choose between the government work and private. They can opt to leave the job if the salary is not good. The government should go outside the country to engage in good doctors to take over for the period they will not work.
AKUA MAMPROBI 11 years ago

PROF.AKOSA,DONT SLAM THE DOCTORS.GOVRT.PREIORITY IS MISPLACED.AS IF WE HAVE NO ECONOMICS TO SET IMPORMANT NEEDS OF THE NATION.WHY DO WE WASTE SO MUCH MONEY ON FOOTBAL.?DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DOCTORS THAT MONEY CAN TAKE CARE OF? ...
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PROF.AKOSA,DONT SLAM THE DOCTORS.GOVRT.PREIORITY IS MISPLACED.AS IF WE HAVE NO ECONOMICS TO SET IMPORMANT NEEDS OF THE NATION.WHY DO WE WASTE SO MUCH MONEY ON FOOTBAL.?DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DOCTORS THAT MONEY CAN TAKE CARE OF?IMAGINE THIS 45 MP'S PAY AND ALLOWANCES.WHY,WHY ARE THE CITIZENS SUFFERING,DID YOU SEE HOW MUCH MONEY NDC SPENT DURING 2012 ELECTION?MISPLACED PRIORITY.ALL THE SAME WE BEG THE DOCTORS,SINCE THEIR STIRKE INVOLVES LIFES.
Kwame Wiredu 11 years ago

You only take actions that will hit those whose actions have put you in that position”, Prof Akosa fumed.

In as much I am not in support of the action by the doctors.the question is how do they take action to affect the ...
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You only take actions that will hit those whose actions have put you in that position”, Prof Akosa fumed.

In as much I am not in support of the action by the doctors.the question is how do they take action to affect the people that put them in theri plight.
go out and beat all the politicians or kidnap them?

Funny stuff in ghana.
Sometimes I get embarassed that I am one.
kwabena 11 years ago

tell us the solution.we are all ghanafo and the way ndc is wayomizing our sika

tell us the solution.we are all ghanafo and the way ndc is wayomizing our sika
Kofi 11 years ago

I agree with Akosa. However, sometimes people are so pushed to the wall that they have to fight back. This should never have happened, never!

I agree with Akosa. However, sometimes people are so pushed to the wall that they have to fight back. This should never have happened, never!
Kofi Lawyer 11 years ago

Any time Medical doctors are on strike, I feel so sad. Sad because, that is the best way to pay back the ordinary poor tax payer whose taxes were used to drastically subsidise the cost of training them. In fact, when yours tr ...
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Any time Medical doctors are on strike, I feel so sad. Sad because, that is the best way to pay back the ordinary poor tax payer whose taxes were used to drastically subsidise the cost of training them. In fact, when yours truly was at UG, P Block, Legon Hall, some twenty plus years ago, there were most of these guys who couldn't have coped with the fee situation if government had made them pay for the full cost of their study. One thing is sure, it is God who heals. When the teachers and police officers and all others die, the docs can add their remuneration to train their children outside and fortify their homes against armed robbers whose children might have died as a result of this senseless strike action.
KB 11 years ago

Shut -up a professor who can't defferentiate democratically- elected government and one party state

Shut -up a professor who can't defferentiate democratically- elected government and one party state
YAA KUMASI 11 years ago

ITS VERY SAD OUR DOCTORS ALWAYS PUT MONEY AND THEIR COMFORFT FIRST BEFORE THINKING OF POOR ORDINARY GHANAIANS.WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT MONEY COMES FIRST AND NOT PEOPLE.

ITS VERY SAD OUR DOCTORS ALWAYS PUT MONEY AND THEIR COMFORFT FIRST BEFORE THINKING OF POOR ORDINARY GHANAIANS.WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT MONEY COMES FIRST AND NOT PEOPLE.
Mercy 11 years ago

The blood of those who died will be upon their heads.

The blood of those who died will be upon their heads.
YAW PAUL 11 years ago

PROFF.Its really sad;do you recollect during your tenure of OFFICE as PRESIDENT OF GMA you lambasted PRESIDENT RAWLINGS for trying to MILITRALISED The RIDGE HOSPITAL during a similar strike action? Sir! Stay put...

PROFF.Its really sad;do you recollect during your tenure of OFFICE as PRESIDENT OF GMA you lambasted PRESIDENT RAWLINGS for trying to MILITRALISED The RIDGE HOSPITAL during a similar strike action? Sir! Stay put...
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Doctor, Doctor
Can I have second opinion?
Of course, come back tomorrow!

2]Doctor, Doctor
I think I'm a bell?
Take these and if it doesn't help give me a ring!
3]Doctor Doctor
I'm not well - can you give ...
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Doctor, Doctor
Can I have second opinion?
Of course, come back tomorrow!

2]Doctor, Doctor
I think I'm a bell?
Take these and if it doesn't help give me a ring!
3]Doctor Doctor
I'm not well - can you give me something to make me better?
Take 2 teaspoons of this after every meal?
But Doctor, I've only got one teaspoon?
3]Doctor, Doctor
I can't stop stealing things
Take these pills for a week; if that doesn't work I'll have a color TV!
jul 11 years ago

Are doctors the only important people in Ghana

Are doctors the only important people in Ghana
Ernie Els 11 years ago

Noko fioooooo...Chop chop go kill you!!!

Noko fioooooo...Chop chop go kill you!!!
Nii 8 years ago

Just sack them,period. They should go and build their own clinics and charge as much as they want.Anyone who wish to work in a government facility must reapply .What a bluff?

Just sack them,period. They should go and build their own clinics and charge as much as they want.Anyone who wish to work in a government facility must reapply .What a bluff?
Paapa 8 years ago

Thumbs up to Prof Akusa. We are fed up with these stikes. These Doctors have no moral right to embark on these useless strikes. No well meaning Ghanian would support them. Are these not the same doctors who use governmet paid ...
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Thumbs up to Prof Akusa. We are fed up with these stikes. These Doctors have no moral right to embark on these useless strikes. No well meaning Ghanian would support them. Are these not the same doctors who use governmet paid time and facilities enrich themselves by charging for their private pactice? Th govt should do the right thing by not paying their salaries during the these protracted stike periods. The BMA should be footing those bills. WE ARE FED UP WITH THEIR HOLDING THE POOR CITIZEN OF GHANA TO RANSOM.
rkt 8 years ago

...and "the pathologist-turned-politician said"........ and "what-turned-what" are u ???
even if u describe yourself as one thing turned another it won'tgive u any right to describe the prof in those terms! show some respec ...
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...and "the pathologist-turned-politician said"........ and "what-turned-what" are u ???
even if u describe yourself as one thing turned another it won'tgive u any right to describe the prof in those terms! show some respect, but above all learn that one can be many things at the same time! in that sense it would have been more acceptable to describe the prof as a "pathologist and politician!
AKWASI 8 years ago

DR. ADUSEI OPOKU IS STAUNCH NPP

DR. ADUSEI OPOKU IS STAUNCH NPP
Cool 8 years ago

I listened to the GMA secretary and he sounded like a street fighter. How did these hooligans get into medicine? Where were the cheap street boys train?

I listened to the GMA secretary and he sounded like a street fighter. How did these hooligans get into medicine? Where were the cheap street boys train?
YAO GBADEGBE 8 years ago

AS FOR U AKOSA JUST SHUT UP. YOUR EX-WIFE SAYS SHE CAUGHT U CHOPPING HER SHOP ASSISTANT AND THE MAID SERVANT. U ONLY KNOW HOW TO DEFILE YOUNG GIRLS AND DEFENCELESS MAIDS. KEEP QUIET U HYPOCRITE AND WE WIL RELEASE MORE.

AS FOR U AKOSA JUST SHUT UP. YOUR EX-WIFE SAYS SHE CAUGHT U CHOPPING HER SHOP ASSISTANT AND THE MAID SERVANT. U ONLY KNOW HOW TO DEFILE YOUNG GIRLS AND DEFENCELESS MAIDS. KEEP QUIET U HYPOCRITE AND WE WIL RELEASE MORE.

Prof. Akosa slams GMA over strike

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