Striking Doctors dare Gov’t: Sack us if you can

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  • Ananse 12 years ago

    Is over to U Mr. Prez

  • GHANABA 1 12 years ago

    To speak the truth, since Chinua Achebe died recently things has really fallen apart in Ghana. although there were many cracks in the government but NDC did not bothered to mend it.A Nigerian novelist introduced his book "THI ...
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  • ERICUS-ERICUS 12 years ago

    I THINK GOVERNMENT MUST BE DIPLOMATIC IN HANDLING THE DOCTORS STRIKING ISSUES. MOST PEOPLE AND GROUPS WHO ARE SPEAKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT ARE MAKING THINGS WORSE.
    I STRONGLY FEEL THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO CHOICE THAN TO PAY THE ...
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  • kow amisah 12 years ago

    Let us find a sensible solution to this problem. Threats and bluffs will not help anybody. The state has a lot to lose with the stike of the doctors. The doctors should also know that they are part of society and are vunerabl ...
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  • lol 12 years ago

    how much are you even paying these politicians?How about the 200,000 you wanna pay these MPs? I don't know why this should even be a problem for the government.Ghana is not even supposed to be poor.The resources we have is en ...
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  • SIMON 12 years ago

    LETS NOT WAIST TIME ON GREEDY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO CONCERN FOR THE GHANAIAN PUBLIC. DOCTORS HAVE TAKEN AN HYPOCRATIC OATH NOT TO ENGADGE IN INDUSTRIAL STRIKES THAT WOULD PUT IN JEPODY THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. SO THEREFORE ...
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  • THE MASK 12 years ago

    Idots all of you. Replace them how? Do they grown on trees?
    The doctors deserve to be paid.
    WAKE UP
    NO ONE IS GETTING PAID WHO IS WORKING FOR GOVERNMENT...YOUR COUNTRY IS IN HUGE TROUBLE.
    DEMAND YOUR MPs MAKE PAYMENTS T ...
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  • Boateng 12 years ago

    No name calling here. It is true they do not grow on trees and it takes years to train them. They need to be paid but the strike action is against their oath.

    How about everybody in Ghana striking? All services are e ...
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  • SIMON 12 years ago

    THEY CAN BE SACKED INCREMENTALLY AND DOCTORS BROUGHT IN FROM OUTSIDE TO FAST TRACK THE MEDICAL STUDENTS TO TAKE THERE PLACES. WE MUST NOT PLAY WITH GREED. ESPECIALLY IN THE HEALTH SECTOR.

  • OBIBA-JUDAS 12 years ago

    SACKING DOCTORS FROM THEIR WORK WILL BRING THE DOWNFALL OF MAHAMA>MARK MY WORDS

  • Sam 12 years ago

    gov't must pay and shut up..why is unfair wages and salaries commision headed by the blockheaded graham smith tells doctors to abide by labour commission ruling when they the unfair wages do not abide by labour commision ruli ...
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  • B. APREKU 12 years ago

    I am one of the many who are on your side. Ghana does not know her priorities. Peopkle like Adjabeng only look at theories not practicalities. There are many people who do not matter as teachers, doctors, firemen, farmers etc ...
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  • Joe ballack UK 12 years ago

    Good one there

  • prince 12 years ago

    I Salute you Frank, if they dare, all Doctors in Mission hospitals will join the strike, only those under the Ministry of defence they can issue these empty threat to! GMA intentionally allowed Doctors in the Misssion or CHAR ...
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  • kk 12 years ago

    if u have misplaced your priorities, then wake up mr. govt, u dole monies to cronies and expect us to tighten our belts, we have families to fend for so pay us all what is due.

  • KENNETH DICKSON. 12 years ago

    Despite the fact that Government owes the Doctors, I think the Doctors took an Oath to save lives. What has come of that oath. has the influence of Money making them forget about the oath, sr they are being influenced by a se ...
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  • DR. KWABENA ASANTE 12 years ago

    I have seriously tried not to comment on this frigile issue about the Doctor's strike. But the comment from Kenneth Dickson, has provoked me to write something. If Kenneth is raising the issue of the Hypocratic Oath of the do ...
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  • Senior Doctor 12 years ago

    Good point. MP's feel they are on top of the Ghanaian hierarchy because the government doles huge amount to serving and non-serving MP's. Now the President wants to bribe God by paying the so called but greedy Pastors on a tr ...
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  • Boateng 12 years ago

    So this is all politics as someone suggested?

    Yes, I will encourage the Doctors to find their way out. The CNA wages may be enough for them out here if they can survive for years before they get their feet into the syste ...
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  • william 12 years ago

    You should have listened to your gut feelings not to comment! Listen to you, are they dealing with the President or the Fair Wages Commission and Labour Commision? How can the Commission's be fair to one body without balancin ...
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  • Boateng 12 years ago

    And thank you for your service. You must be paid so should everybody that works. It is a delicate issue, people are dying, that is all I know; yours is not like the teacher who is told that his wages await him in heaven. ...
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  • Boateng 12 years ago

    So Dear Doctor Asante, I do agree that when one works one must be paid. The dilemma here is you are saying because someone broke their oath your oath does not mean anything?

    I am not sure the Government can go ahead and ...
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  • Kanawu Kumankuma. 12 years ago

    Self-proclaimed consultants are urging government on to sack on-strike public sector Medical Doctors in Ghana. A poisonous bait that the government is already feasting on perilously. Pronouncements of Mahama Ayiraga and Earl ...
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  • Kelvin Affum 12 years ago

    please make sure to pay for their work done before sacking them,these doctors are right though our lives are at stake but till we are all one,these people will continue to cheat and insult the integrity of all Ghanaians. God ...
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  • AGYEMANG 12 years ago

    GOV,T MIGHT NOT SACK U BUT REMEMBER U HAVE BEEN GRACED BY GOD WITH A MINISTRY THROUGH WHICH GOD GETS HIS SICK PEOPLE HEALED. DOCTORS SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER THAT ITS NOT BY THEIR MIGHT THAT THEY ARE DOCTORS, BUT THE KIND BLESS ...
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  • esi 12 years ago

    The doctors have their private hospitals so they do not care. It is about time the Government let them sack and asked them to reapply. It must be on contract basis.

  • DAN 12 years ago

    Do u know how much the govt will spend if they are employed on contract?.Think about that.

  • Freethinker 12 years ago

    I think its a good point!! contract plus ex-gratia after every 4 years :)))!!!!

  • 555 12 years ago

    Ah Ghana why should some body's greedness led us to this.The stupidity of those who voted for the Narcortic Drug Company(NDC) has led to this.

  • KANEWU 12 years ago

    COMMON SENSE DICTATES THAT ANY COUNTRY WHOSE BUSINESS CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS KNOW THE LOCAL CURRENCY IS UNSTABLE AND USELESS WITH LIMITED PURCHASING POWER, WOULD PREFER TO USE A STABLE AND CONVERTIBLE CURRENCY FOR THEIR BUSIN ...
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  • ASANTE 12 years ago

    This DC FOOL talk any how to who ever they want and then get away with it.Those who were picked up from street to become Ministers know nothing but going to Fm to FM,to provoke DOCTORS and TEACHERS

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

    Even well-developed countries can`t afford to sack doctors!How much more a very poor country like ours?If this Gov`t dares,the electorate should march and kick this Gov`t out!Selfish and greedy politicians!

  • Timbuktu 12 years ago

    The politicians are quick to give themselves pay increases. In my book, a doctor is vastly more important than the average Ghanaian politician (whose principal goal is to loot as much state funds as he/she can get away with). ...
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  • Alexander the Great 12 years ago

    Damn all those half-wits who are supporting the doctors strike. Can't believe we are now equating precious human lives to money. what a shame!.It could be one of your relatives needing care. Keeping on ranting here your healt ...
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  • Senior Doctor 12 years ago

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  • THE MASK 12 years ago

    Your the fool Alexander the IDIOT
    Doctors have rents, families to feed. Do they live on nothing?
    It's your government, not the doctors...who need to learn how to run a country.

  • Alexander the Great 12 years ago

    No wonder your name is the mask. Aren't the doctors going to collect their salaries at the end of the month? for no work done? Think carefully and come again you dim-wit.

  • Freethinker 12 years ago

    isnt that what govt has been doing all along?
    MP's collecting sallaries+exgratia+10% cuts not to talk of all the free bees for no work done??? who is the nation wrecker here??
    If a Doctor asks for what is due him give it to ...
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  • Opoosa 12 years ago

    The Government should show leadership on the prevailing strikes in the country and by leadership I don’t mean threats and ultimatums. It seems Government is confusing power with leadership. Leaders set vision and this is po ...
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  • KANIA 12 years ago

    MAHAMA IS JUST INCOPETENT, STEALING HIS WAY THROUGH TO BECOME PREZ. IS THIS INCOPETENT PREZ. MORE VALUABLE THAN THE DOCTORS? HE FORCED HIMSELF TO BE PREZ. AND WE WANT HIM TO RESIGN IMMEDIATELY FOR PEACE AND TRANQUILITY TO PRE ...
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  • Joe Essel 12 years ago

    What school did Senyo Adjabeng go and where is he from

  • Saludos 12 years ago

    He is a Ghanaian and that is all that matters. By the way, I do not support his statements. I am just appalled that you are obliquely playing the ethnic card.

  • Kwame 12 years ago

    Okay Doctors, we all feel your pain. Your pont and concerns are well taken...now it's time to end the strike and get serious talks going for a resolution. The people are suffering

  • NANA YAA 12 years ago

    Yes! sack them if you can, foolish NDC you think going to school is a joke because you people don't like schooling you talk keke.Semi-educated people.If you finish sack the UTAG too and let's see. FOOLISH.

  • Alexander the Great 12 years ago

    Idiot like you. where are you from? Mars or the Jungle. Wait till your irresponsible parents and siblings get sick now.

  • NANA YAA 12 years ago

    You are the IDIOT. I will take care of them. FOOLISH BOY.

  • Alexander the Great 12 years ago

    Shame half brain.

  • spanky 12 years ago

    &*@#$%^&~!

  • Asambo 12 years ago

    The doctors are becoming too full of themselves. They even take on government like they were a polical grouping and not a labour union. Their beviour is giving credence to the allegation that they are doing the bidding of a p ...
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  • Concerned citizen 12 years ago

    Hang on! Can I please remind the section of the GMA that are trying to turn Ghana upside down that they shouldn't forget so soon- that it's these very poor farmers, fishermen, small business operators, traders etc,who are the ...
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  • Darkoa newmann 12 years ago

    The doctors in ghana are one of the most greedy professionals I have ever come across . Upon all the incentives they get they are still yearning for more adzem? Personally I think the government must demonstrate that nobody i ...
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  • Senior Doctor 12 years ago

    May be you are yet to meet a politician in Ghana then you would change your mind

  • JAGBELE 12 years ago

    Don't even think of the word SACK because there can never be replacement now.Solve the problem

  • GHANANI 12 years ago

    The government should introduce with immediate effect the payment of fees by students trained as doctors in our universities.If they pay fees and they decide to leave the country after completing their medical courses that wi ...
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  • Ama 12 years ago

    This is very insensitive on the part of the doctors. Why are they holding the lives of the people they have vowed to take care of to ransom? If the tenets of their employment does not subscribe to strike action, why are they ...
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  • OBIBINI 12 years ago

    Employees[doctors] challenging the employer[government] to sack them.It shows how arrogant our doctors are.They feel so big in their shoes that they have no respect for the government which employs them.Africans really need s ...
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  • JEFF 12 years ago

    WE CALL ON DOCTORS TO ACT PROFESSIONALLY. DOCTORS BELONG TO THE ESSENTIAL SEVICES SEGMENT THIS DOES NOT ALLOW THEM TO GO ON STRIKE.GOING ON STRIKE SMACKS OF POLITICAL MOTIVATION. THEY SHOULD, THEREFORE, CALL OFF THE STRIKE AN ...
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  • E K Danah 12 years ago

    I am sorry Governments and medical Doctors over the years have taken Ghanaians for a ride.

    We have lost born and unborn citizens of this land through Doctors and nurses strikes.

    It's is overdue for the sector ministry ...
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  • EZEKIEL 12 years ago

    These verbal EXCHANGES,IN THIS FORM, are not the MARK of educated People!Why do we have the word..NEGOTIATE ??
    Idiots both from the Govt side and the Doctors'!!

  • Jacob Yakubu 12 years ago

    In Ghana, doctors have always seen themselves as a class above everyone else. I think this is however very naive of them. The only job in this well that you never really get to be big is being a doctor! You remain doing the s ...
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  • Kwabla 12 years ago

    Please tell doctors that those working at electricity,water,police ,army can also demands their pound of flesh by going on strike there they will released that they are not better off than them.

  • Kk 12 years ago

    I SUGGEST GOVT BRING IN DOCTORS FROM CUBA TO FILL IN THE GAP WHILES SALARIES OF THESE STRINKING DOCTORS ARE SUSPENDED.IF VACANCIES IN HOSPITALS ARE GRADUALLY FILLED UP,THOSE STRIKING DOCTORS CAN STRIKE FOR EVER.

  • Freethinker 12 years ago

    Lol you will need a translator for these Cuban doctors not to talk about the inferior service!!!
    You have already sold yourself to the Chinese and all your farmlands are now pits of stagnant water and rivers polluted with cy ...
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  • Kk 12 years ago

    GOVT MUST BE BOLD AND FILL VACANCIES IN HOSPITALS WHERE DOCTORS ARE STRIKING.LEGALLY THESE DOCTORS HAVE SACKED THEMSELVES,GOVT CAN SACK THEM QUIETLY.

  • DADAA 12 years ago

    Cuba now has good r/s with US.They wont come.When ey can 1000s of dollars in US. Address eir problems cos eir job is e most riskiest.They pampered here in US. i wonder why ey waste eir tym in gh.

  • eyo 12 years ago

    Come to think of no. of years ey spend in sch. dadaa I agree with u.i also wonder why ey waste eir time in gh.

  • esi 12 years ago

    The doctors upon completing training, pay what ey owe country thru. fellowship service ey cant withdraw eir passport. In America physician assistance and nursing practitioners are equally paid well.They are all treated as doc ...
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  • KOBBY 12 years ago

    I am not happy about the way the GMA has been turned into a political party by her leaders.
    It is true that the Government is owing the striking doctors, but the way the leadership of the GMA are disposing themselves,smells ...
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  • Boateng 12 years ago

    Sack them and withdraw their passports until each one of them refunds fully the cost of training. Use the refund to import Cuban Doctors to replace them. There are many Foreign Doctors, Physician Assistants etc that are r ...
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  • Whatever 12 years ago

    When it comes to life, it is only one. That is why even if you have an abundant of sympathy for the doctors, you still wouldn't want to see them continue with it. Please return before all your good deeds is destroyed by sheer ...
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  • Kokrokoooo 12 years ago

    Pay the DOCTOR'S with the ex-gratia's for the M.P.'S, for the M.P'S do not do anything the the average GHANAIAN, they just enrich themselves with the taxes GHANAIANS pay. How stupid is GOVT to sit and see an MP get so much mo ...
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  • Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

    You do not need to look that far. All
    the signs have been written on the walls almost two years ago !!!

    Ghana is currently being mismanaged by DRUNKARDS and the very CRAZY !!!
    These people do not know what they are doin ...
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  • Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

    should read : without a rudder or a compass !!!