Striking junior doctors sacked

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  • Me 10 years ago

    Good move

  • JIMMY 10 years ago

    SACK THEM ; WHY ALWAYS STRIKES FOR NOMREASON

  • kofi 10 years ago

    its about time the goverment stop educating this idiots this is not done anywhere in the world let them educate themselves and the can choose to work in ghana or not they are just taking advantage of the system we use tax pay ...
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  • GOGEIMN 10 years ago

    LISTEN TO THESE FOOLS AGAIN: AFTER GHANA SPENT TAX PAYERS MONIES TO EDUCATE YOU; YOU ARE NOW BLOFFING

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    They have employed ten new Doctors, I guess these Doctors are going to work for free since they terminated the other Doctors who demanded to be paid.

  • kululu 10 years ago

    These new recruits are going to wait and be paid after nine or some more months without any complaints.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Sarpong, do you honestly believe this cock-and-bull story before you to even comment cheerfully on it? Now, doctors are not factory workers out there whereby one can employ and "fire" at will. Well, I guess the new doctors do ...
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  • HAHA 10 years ago

    Ghana lost 10 highly trianed professionals. Send me the names and contacts of these doctors. I'll fly them to America, where they are wanted and it's ILLEGAL not to pay people on time( for even a month).

  • NA 10 years ago

    Doctors not trained in the US can not come and practice as MDs without passing the board exams and doing 3-4 years intenship. You are hyping.

  • Qw 10 years ago

    You said it, you take the exams. You pass, you take up residency( internship), and get paid while doing your residency( more than Senior doctors in Ghana) $50K to $90K depending on your specialty. The exam is not easy though ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW WHY THE JEWS IN GHANA HAVE BIG NOSE?BECAUSE THE AIR IS FREE.
    NOTHING IS FREE IN THE WORLD AND IF THE BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT HAS THE MEANS TO SELL AIR,THEY WILL.

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    SLAVERY IS OVER, NOTHING IS FREE ON THIS PLANET APART FROM THE AIR GOD GAVE US TO BREATHE.

  • Dx 10 years ago

    Sacking the Jr docs is just dumb. Spend precious resources to highly train people, and you just let them go? DUMBEST MOVE!
    And you wonder why people leave. We dont have enough doctors, and then you don't pay them even the p ...
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  • point 10 years ago

    We rush $3 million to Brazil to pay footballers,bonuses for weak leaders,luxury cars, Chinese furniture instead of paying people who help save lives.

  • Kofi Pratt 10 years ago

    Which other country in the civilised world is it acceptable not to pay a professional for 9 months?

  • tan90sin90cos90. 10 years ago

    is arrears not monthly salary. know the difference between arrears and salary.

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

    These Doctors are not idiots as you think. It is the government that is. Have you ever in your useless life seen an idiot person become a doctor. Only in your hopeless house. How can you work for nine months without receiving ...
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  • CARL MARX 10 years ago

    I WISH ANY OF THOSE SCREAMING AT THESE DOCTORS HAVE A WARD OR TWO AT ADMITTED AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND PAY REGULAR FEES FOR THEM. LET THEM PASS OUT AND BE DENIED PAYMENT OF THEIR SALARIES FOR EVEN SIX MONTHS ANS STILL BE DEM ...
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  • Kwabena, London 10 years ago

    So what are you saying they should not be paid for nine months and that is right.
    I studied in England and your view that its not done any where in the world. I find its strange. I have lived in England for 44 years and stud ...
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  • OP 10 years ago

    Stupidity will kill you. You seems to be the most useless and unreasonable being l have heard. Which part of the world will one work for 9 months without salary

  • OP 10 years ago

    Stupidity will kill you Kofi.In fact you are the most useless and unreasonable being l have heard.Tell me which part of the world will one work for 9 months without salary.

  • J. D Mahama 10 years ago

    Not all Drs in ghana are educated free as some of these people seemed to imply. There are fee paying medical students in the nation's medical schools. Their parents pay for the medical education.

  • GHAECF 10 years ago

    LET THEM PAY ALL THE MONEY WE USE TO MAKE THEM WHAT THEY ARE TODAY AND LET THEM GO:
    GREEDY BASTARDS: WHO MADE YOU DOCTORS? THE STATE:

  • IVY 10 years ago

    AFTER THE GOVT USES TAX PAYERS MONEY TO EDUCATE YOU; THIS IS THE PAYMENT BACK??

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Idiot, who are the taxpayers? Are they and their parents not taxpayers too? Do you idiot expect them to work for free because taxpayers money were used to educate them?

    Your own education in Ghana was subsidized by taxpaye ...
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  • YAW 10 years ago

    YOU ARE A DONKEY!!YOU SIT IN YOUR RACIST AMERICA AND WRITE GARBAGE. HOW MUCH TAX HAS EACH OF THEM PAID?

  • GOD SAVE GHANA,. 10 years ago

    Hope you have one of the Doctors as a family member.

  • GHAA 10 years ago

    WHAT YOU WISH FOR IS WHAT YOU GET:
    THE NEW WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO FACE TO BE A DOCTOR: AS A DOCTOR YOUR RULES AND LAWS ARE NOT THE SAME AS A BANKER: YOU WORK ALL TIME ANYTIME THE NEEDS ARISES: YOU ARE A SOIAL WORKER NOT A ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    Ivy should know that the Virgins in Bishop Herman Mills church in Cape Coast will not give pussy free to the junior doctors because they all want to be paid.

  • Ritewing 10 years ago

    Ivy, look around your family, you will certain find quite a lot in there and the idiots in your village, send them to be trained as doctors so that when they qualify, they can work free for the government. Dr. Daniel Asare, t ...
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  • GHAA 10 years ago

    MY FAMILY ARE EVEN FATHERS ; WHO DO NOT TAKE PAY BUT THEY ARE SURVIVING; THESE DOCTORS NEW THAT; AS A DOCTOR YOUR JOB IS WITHOUT CEASING; ANYTIME ANYDAY LIFE IS IN PLAY YOU MUST REACT VERY FAST: SO WHY WILL THEY GO ON STRIKE ...
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  • dk 10 years ago

    kwasiya......we are in this country the ndc gov't imported sanitary pad for school children. these doctors have worked for 9 solid months and you do not want to pay them, God save ghana.

  • play 10 years ago

    dr asare were you not [paid for nine months? you will grow old to come and meet some of these doctors and they will treat you but you will only get well after confession. watch out

  • Honsa 10 years ago

    When your politicians pay themselves 2.7billion cedis exgratia after 4yrs, you don't see a thing wrong with it but rather find something wrong with doctors fighting for their 9 month salary.

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Idiot, who works for nine months without getting paid and you call that as no reason to strike?

    Cry for yourself because these Doctors are in a profession where the services they provide is in high demand and will be emplo ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    There will soon be the Doctor brain drain.

  • Jew 10 years ago

    brain drain to which country. They can't fit in because they are too proud, heartless and value money over human life.

  • United Ghana 10 years ago

    Is 9 months unpaid salaries "no reason" to strike? You must be sending your comments from flagstaff house. Only heartless employers fail to pay their employees for 9 months.

  • The Mentor 10 years ago

    If you weren't paid for 9 months wouldn't you strike?

  • DANNI 10 years ago

    CAN YOU ASK FOR THE MPS IN PARLIAMENT AND THE PRESIDENT NOT TO PAY THEMSELVES FOR 6 MONTHS AND CARRY ON WORKING. WOULD THEY LIKE THAT? HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?

  • Kofi Pratt 10 years ago

    Kwasia if you had the difficult job they had to do you would want to get paid. How are they meant to survive and pay for their living expenses. you're a bush man

  • koo 10 years ago

    U can strike if you're not paid. But to continue striking after negotiation with your employers is just laziness and the unrepentant attitude of Ghanaians to sleep and get paid.

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  • ???? 10 years ago

    I'm sorry, whoever u are...but I think u're a great big idiot. I really hope u never get ill...fool.

  • fela 10 years ago

    Another judgement debt

  • Jeff 10 years ago

    How would you feel if u work for 9 month without salary. These young men are humans too. Do you know of any government aid who has not been paid for 1 month.

  • Nurudeen 10 years ago

    Please, let's stop being too emotional about this, if you read the article in full, their monthly allowances are paid. Moreso, the government have concluded negotiations with them. This happens in all government departments. ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    Sack Them? Can you work on empty stomach? I wonder what you do but I am not naïve to think the decision is right.

  • gretchy 10 years ago

    ur a dumb buggr.No man in his right will work for nothing when u have a useless President hording all da funds in his own account.I support all workers to have the right to strike for payment over wages.My friend is still wai ...
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  • OP 10 years ago

    Stupidity will kill you.You are the most useless and unreasonable guy l have ever heard.Tell me which part of the world will one work for 9 months without salary.

  • HUMANISM 10 years ago

    INSTEAD OF PAYING PEOPLE YOU OWE, YOU ARE DISPLAYING YOUR POWER OVER PEOPLE WHO NEED TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES, PAY RENT, PAY FOR TRANSPORTATION TO WORK ETC ETC.

    WHERE ELSE ON EARTH, WILL A GOVT. REFUSE TO PAY SALARIES TO TH ...
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  • KWADOW A 10 years ago

    Once government is paying for their education, government has the right to take any action it deems fit to recoup its money.

  • Sigma, London 10 years ago

    Check your facts before commenting. Medical school education is not free me-bro.

  • Jeff 10 years ago

    How do u mean government is paying for their education? Are u saying medical students do not pay fees. ? Is it not the same universities the parliamentarians attend ? Do u expect a hungry doctor who has not bn paid for 9 mont ...
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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 10 years ago

    Good one,Include the senior ones

  • Kofi Pratt 10 years ago

    Then who would look after you when you're sick?

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    DO U KNOW HOW MUCH IT COST GHANA GOVERNMENT TO TRAIN EACH DOCTOR AND WHAT WE ARE LOOSING AS A COUNTRY? THIS DR ASARE MAN IS AN EDUCATED IDIOT. THESE YOUNG DOCTORS HAVE NOT BEEN PAID FOR OVER 9 MONTHS AND U ARE TELLING THEM TO ...
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  • LIZ DAMOAH 10 years ago

    YES THEY CAN GO. TELL E THE QUALITY OF THEIR WORK PERFORMANCE TO JUSTIFY THEIR SENSELESS CLAIM IN VIEW OF THE BAD CUMULATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES IN GHAN OVER THE PAST YEARS. THEY ARE INCOMPETENT, FULL OF SELF-IMPORTANCE, ARROGANT W ...
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  • Agya Kwame 10 years ago

    THEY HAVE NOT BEEN PAID FOR 9 MONTHS!!! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO?

  • United Ghana 10 years ago

    Would you be happy to go unpaid for 9 months? I'm sure you wouldn't, but you wish it on others. You're typical of this NDC regime under useless Mahama - heartless

  • Onetribe 10 years ago

    Pure abuse of power. They will sue and win

  • Stoway 10 years ago

    The are currently being paid. What is out standing is their 9 months arrears yet to be paid. They are also receiving and were receiving transport and feeding allowance.

  • Jeff 10 years ago

    Get ur facts right.

  • Kofi Pratt 10 years ago

    Amen ooo

  • Wofa, USA 10 years ago

    See who is "FULL OF SELF-IMPORTANCE, ARROGANT, HAVE NO FEELINGS AND SHOW NO UNDERSTANDING. My young neice com

  • john dramani mahama 10 years ago

    I've never come across such a big bunch of dumb useless idiotic mofo fucktwits who support the action of sacking the junior doctors.

    It is not as if there are enough doctors in Ghana in the first place. Secondly, these peo ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    THANK YOU FOR HITTING THE NAIL AT THE RIGHT POINT.

  • Sammy 10 years ago

    Yes, indeed Doctors play a role in the lives of humans but I am afraid, God is the ultimate Healer. Even the devil uses some of them to destroy.

  • kk 10 years ago

    Then why don't you sack all doctors, save their salaries and let God heal all the sick in the country

  • Kpenyo John Ralph 10 years ago

    Prez, you are too doll, pls please pay unannounced visit to places to see things for yourself. Don't sit in the flagstaff house for selfish people to be deceiving you. Prez Rawlings & Mills did it, why not u the younger one. ...
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  • Amidini 10 years ago

    Please dialogue for amicably solution

  • .USMAN. 10 years ago

    Go and see how Prez Mahama of Ghana has transformed Gonjaland with Ghana money. I weep for Ewes.

  • HULK 10 years ago

    SO WHAT? WHIPPING UP ENVY, INSULTS, NAME CALLING, THREATS AND SUCH ILLS ARE NOT THE WAY TO WIN POWER. THERE IS GRACE THAT FLOWS FROM ON HIGH AND IT FLOWS TO THOSE WHO GO ON THEIR KNEES AND HUMBLY SERVE OTHERS.
    BY THE WAY, A ...
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  • JA 10 years ago

    Be careful, Dr Asare! That's not the way to go. Please dialogue with them, they seem to have a point. In the end, patient care is what suffers, and I am sure you don't care too much about that. Sto ...
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  • Jn Doctors Association 10 years ago

    Sacking doctors for non payment of salaries is the highest form of injustice. this govt is the most unjust for Ghana. We shall see whta we will resort to

  • Cool 10 years ago

    You need to complete ur houseman ship to be registered. Fools

  • Jeff 10 years ago

    You are the greatest fool.go to the emergency units of the various hospitals and see how these same doctors u are insulting have been helping patients.

  • GADIDIMGADAM 10 years ago

    Do you know what this means? Overworked staff, disgruntled staff, doctor-patient ratio in the tanks, and more casualties with deaths of patients now a common phenomenon.
    As a result of failure of the Mahama NDC gov't to pay ...
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  • Emeka 10 years ago

    Thats a good move....teachers shld be the nxt.

  • JINAD 10 years ago

    ALWAYS STRIKING FOR NO REASON: DOCTORING IS NOT A MONEY MAKING BODY

  • ANABA 10 years ago

    STUPID FOOL!!!NO PAY FOR 9 months JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE UNFORTUNATELY A DOCTOR?THE IDIOTIC MPs ARE GETTING THEIR FAT UNDESERVED SALARIES EVERY MONTH AND SOME OF THEM DROPPED OUT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND VARSITY!!!

  • AA 10 years ago

    KUDOS. MORE OF THAT WANTED TO INJECT DISCIPLINE.

  • Pin 10 years ago

    When people work for you they have to be paid.no doctor is your property.they are humans and have their individual needs.Dr Asare should rather be sacked.How do you expect them to survive?

  • A. Kubi 10 years ago

    How can a worker go unpaid for nine months and is expected to discharge his or her duties faithfully? It is a disgrace for workers to continue working without pay for nine months! That is why corrupt practices in the workplac ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    TEE, Salary is different from arrears.They deserve to be sacked as we are tired of them.

  • Naaba kugri 10 years ago

    Kubi don't have ears or eyes ? It's salary arrears as the are being paid their salary now. This is what every doctor know from time immoraial every doctor will have salary arrears after your training and houseman ship. Every ...
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  • Bomber 10 years ago

    Teachers and other civil servants work for up to two years before being paid. Ask the teachers, nurses, etc. Why do doctors feel so special. Ghana needs order and equal treatment for its workforce. Strikes must be stoppec by ...
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  • Columbus GA 10 years ago

    I agreed more to your intake. But most of this so called doctors. Which I alway prefer to call them their right name medical officers can't even pass medical board exams here in the states, for that matter can't practice medi ...
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  • Dr.Shamrock 10 years ago

    Stupid fool we have more than half of our batch practicing in USA now. I decided to stay after passing my PALB to work in UK but when God touched me,I quit abt moving abroad just to help my own kind so decided to stay n was w ...
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  • fela 10 years ago

    And we will wait when there are more cuban doctors and they begin to hold the country to ransom there u will see ur foolishness,they can seek redress in another country or even confiscate ur assert abroad .The best is to solv ...
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  • TEE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS NOT COMPETENT TO RULE GHANA, IS REALLY DANGEROUS, MAHAMA IS NOT GOOD FOR GHANA

  • TEE 10 years ago

    THE EBOLA VACCINE

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    The pay for "honorable" MPs, the NDC activists and all those who hang around the Castle, the Flagstaff House and the $20 million NDC headquarters is never in arrears. Since when have strikes in demand for arrears owed (not ev ...
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  • its me 10 years ago

    thats a good move. this an professional jokers think they are there to make money only. how mant times have they not killed pipol bcos o their foolishness. sack them if they misbehave

  • Edwin 10 years ago

    For What,Why,Why,Why!!!

  • Ghanaman THE REAL 10 years ago

    Very short sighted and stupid action by this acting Chief Executive indeed! How can you have the nerve to sack these much needed staff when you have broken their contracts by not paying their salaries for 9 months or have I g ...
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  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    I don't subscribe to strikes but at the same token it seems like the only time Goverments in Ghana listen to their people is by going on strike. How can somebody work for 9 months and not be paid. Don't they pay the MPs and ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    You are not missing the jest or details of the story but on the relative morality therein.
    It is tax payer money that pays for the majority of the actual fees and charges associated with professional education in Ghana or an ...
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  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    Is the GOVT not paying their ministers and MPs. So if the GOVT can find money to pay these non performing people why cant the GOVT find money to pay people that are protecting the health of its citizens. This shows the incomp ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Abeeku, why not go to a medical school to become a doctor since the taxpayer will fund your education? How many of your family members have availed themselves of the free medical education in Ghana? The person at fault is the ...
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  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    You are an idiot. You live in USA, tell me what company doesn't pay its workers every week, every two weeks or month.

    The fact that other employees have not been paid is not an excuse.

  • KING PROMOTION 10 years ago

    ATTENTION KING SOLOMON THE BEST GOSPEL MUSICIAN IN GHANA,AFRICAN AND THE WORLD WANTS TO CONTEST FOR GHANA MUSIGA PRESIDENT, ALL MUST SUPPORT HIM AND VOTE FOR HIM.

  • JAMES PIO 10 years ago

    THIS IS A VERY GOOD FIRM AND MORALLY RIGHT DECISION CAPECOAST. THEY HAVE THEIR RIGHTS TO WITHDRAW THEIR LABOUR AND EQUALLY THEIR EMPLOYER HAS THE RIGHT TO NOT TO HIRE THEIR LABOUR IF THEY CNNOT AFFORD IT AFTER ALL THE DOCTORS ...
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  • Maxwell Afrifa 10 years ago

    Stupid fool Dr Asare, you get paid every month right? You feed yourself and your family well right? During your time you did the same thing right? Fire burn you and your family. These junior Doctors will not die foolish Ma ...
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  • Adaku 10 years ago

    EXCELLENT MOVE,LONG OVERDUE AND I SIMPLY DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WORKERS ON STRIKE HERE ARE PAID. GO TO BRITAIN AND YOU'LL FIND ONE DOES NOT GET PAID FOR EVEN HALF A DAY'S STRIKE. COMMON SENSE SHOULD REIGN,BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT IS ...
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  • Senior citizen Bs Germany. 10 years ago

    Dr Daniel Asare, I was flabbagasted and saddened when I read the action you took against the striking junior doctors, the treatment which looks like the proverbial motherless child.In every situation there is a common groung, ...
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  • Jojo 10 years ago

    Strange times! If you sack doctors who have not been paid for 9 months and engage new ones, will you pay them when their first month ends? There is something missing in Dr Asare's logic.

  • NKANSAH 10 years ago

    NO PAMPERING, THEY HAVE TO LEARN TO BE RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS

  • Illiterate graduates and presidents o 10 years ago

    Judgement debt is in the making again oo you did similar thing to doctor at kofo anokye hospital in kumasi the man won the case at court we all heard the compensation he took from the hospital ? . You idiots want to do the sa ...
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  • S.K 10 years ago

    Is a good direction, nowadays we have more doctors siting at home and some are managing with private hospitals, so if there misbehave on duties no need to live them.

  • Wisdom Katakiti 10 years ago

    This indeed is wonderful.Ghana is in tumoil both political and to the economic lifes of the people.money have indeed thrown our traditonal beliefs and norms into oblivion.

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    Two wrongs dont make things right.its wrong to fire the Junior Doctors.
    Can Dr Asare work and never get paid?
    What is feeding and transport allowance,what about rent money,money for their own responsibility and other things ...
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  • GOGEIMN 10 years ago

    IT NOW THE HABBIT OF OUR DOCTORS TO BE ASKING OF MORE MONEY OR ELSE THE WILL STRIKE

  • aso 10 years ago

    They have free accommodation. They only lack patience. For a young person money not paid is money saved for better use. I support the sack.

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 10 years ago

    Very very very gud one there.
    This shld send a signal to the rest of doctors who take us for granted.
    The next time they embark on nation wide strike their salaries shld be blocked and govt arrange for Cuban doctors/special ...
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  • Fred 10 years ago

    They will learn from that

  • Kunado 10 years ago

    So the ten new doctors will not be paid. Oh Ghana.

  • Kwesi, USA 10 years ago

    Thank U, my brother!

  • nii nii niiiii 10 years ago

    Shame shame.I told you guys to go to work as nobody will take you serious.You cannot bite,you are weak,and you have not proven yourself for the govt to be scared so you've got what you deserve.You wanna strive,be bold, decisi ...
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  • joe 10 years ago

    POTAG and UTAG especially, take a cue from this and be advised!!!

  • zombi politician. 10 years ago

    Doc Asare made a wrong decision.The young shall grow.You will meet them one day and apologize.Nine months no salary and sacked ?How,how,why!!

  • James K. Adams Tamale 10 years ago

    What I want to ask is will the new doctors transferred there, will they be paid and giving all which is due them?What about other expenses who is going to pay.This will not work its completely foolish decision.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    The GMA needs to call Dr. Asare to order immediately!

  • JMK 10 years ago

    Dr Asare is managing things for them. He said they are using Internally Generated Funds to pay them or help them so why can´r they also help the hospital to attend to the needs of the poor patients who go to that hospital? T ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Do you think the doctors are not working because they have been paid but with IGF? You do not know what Dr. Asare has brought on himself. You watch how the matter goes. Being a doctor is not voluntary work. When you employ pe ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Whem someone is engaged to work, he is paid his due. He is not paid food and travelling allowances. Dr. Asare needs to be sanctioned immediately. Does he take feeding and traveling allowance? Why does he think other doctors l ...
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  • Pensive 10 years ago

    I m praying one day dat dis mp,s not paid for 9 mons n let c wat will happened gh here

  • DANYO DAVID DZIEWORNU TAGBORLO 10 years ago

    Hmmmm my beloved c'tizens; let not politicise everything. Anger spoils a lot. No insult on media. Hmmmmm prof. Atta Mills rest in perfect peace. But I think warning and querry letters are to be served first before the dismisa ...
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  • Hope 10 years ago

    Simple and Short,Dr. Daniel Asare perosnally for his inhumane treatment of these young Doctors. They were asking for their pay which has been in arrears for 9 months not your feeding and the allowances. Those do not add up to ...
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  • saaka 10 years ago

    SACKING DOCTORS WOW.OUR COUNTRY IS FALLING. WE WILL SEE 2016.ppp will surely come to power and employed doctors r

  • c.stephen sackey. 10 years ago

    At the height of a strike by air traffic controllers in the '80s, President Ronald Reagan fired all of them.
    That action made him popular.
    But he took that action on a firm constitunional grounds. He invoked the statutory ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    This is the way to go. Its true no employee is satisfied with what s/he takes home but our doctors are greedy and politically motivated. When the tax payers money were been used to feed them, transport, give them the bursarie ...
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  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    YOUNG MEN WHO RECEIVED FREE MEDICAL TRAINING PAYING BACK SOCIETY WITH STRIKE! SACKING THEM IS THE BOLDEST DECISION EVER TAKEN IN GHANA. MAKE IT A LAW FOR MEDICAL DOCTORS TO PAY BACK THE FULL COST OF THEIR TRAINING IF THEY GO ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Which contract did they sign with government to work for free because they were educated free by the nation? With such stupid thinking why won't the politicians take you for granted?

  • Nii 10 years ago

    I even forgot to add that the government should seize their certificates until they pay for the money used to train them. Shameless doctors.

  • zombi politician. 10 years ago

    Doc Asare made a wrong decision.The young shall grow.You will meet them one day and apologize.Nine months no salary and sacked ?How,how,why!!

  • CARL MARX 10 years ago

    I believe lots of Ghanaians have this erroneous impression that the education of medical doctors in Ghana is either free or highly subsidized such as what exists in Cuba or the communist nations.

    Ask trainees from the Univ ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    I wish this was started some years ago. Doctors think they are tin gods and for that matter they do what pleases them. I have lost sympathy for doctors years ago. sack them if they dare.

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

    Get USA visas and come to New York where jobs are waiting for every doctor who passes the State Medical Exams. Do not again cry for Argentina for Argentina will never cry for you either. How on earth that some body would wor ...
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  • Mankind 10 years ago

    Be happy sacked doctors!!You received a free medical education. Go to South Africa, Europe or America where you will be paid $200,000+ a year. You will get your salary every month with NO delay. Thanks Ghana for free educatio ...
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  • tan90sin90cos90. 10 years ago

    government must appy the policy of no work no pay so that money will be deducted from the so call junior doctors salary for number of days being absent from work. professionla teachers dont get their salary for abt 11 months, ...
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  • fela 10 years ago

    U have Not paid the person for 9 months u protest and you r sacked .Hope the administrator retires and never falls sick.

  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    Why

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

    Two couples were playing cards. Mensah a Junior Doctor accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Dave'a Senior Doctors wife, Sandy, was not wearing any u ...
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  • GOOD NEWS,Sack dem all, including the 10 years ago

    GOOD NEW, sack dem all including fucking teachers

  • dee 10 years ago

    that's ridiculous . how can you sack them. on what grounds. another judgement debt in the making. poor leadership by the CEO . I don't blame him but the politically motivated system that appointed him. why do we do thinks ...
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  • Agyei - Asante 10 years ago

    Is what Dr. Daniel Asare doing not robbing Peter to pay Paul? The sacked doctors should take the matter to court for redress.

  • synyactic sugar 10 years ago

    boss. I worked 18 months without pay. unlike the doctors who get accommodation n feeding allowances I didn't get some. I have degree in med lab tech from knust n I assure u I have colleagues at komfo anokye who have not been ...
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  • Paapaa-Puupuu 10 years ago

    They think they are tin Gods and other hwalth workers aren't important as they are. They can move abroad immediately. No qualms.

  • koo 10 years ago

    because your salary hasnt been paid for 18mnths doesnt mean it is right. why dnt you protest and force governments to do what is right. hypocrisy in the highest order. Have we asked whether the Mps and ministers hadnt been pa ...
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  • Sam 10 years ago

    Why employ them if you can not pay them?

  • back door director 10 years ago

    Be careful with running to the media with administrative issues..

    Wait until the same media put you on the carpet. Grow up

  • zombi politician. 10 years ago

    Dr.Asare will meet this doctor's one day when he is Old and they will attend to him for free. Wicked Doctor. The young shall grow.

  • back door director 10 years ago

    Most of you do not even know the administrative and disciplinary procedures guiding the work of doctors yet you proceed to offer ignorant comments

  • Agyaaku 10 years ago

    That is nonsense

  • kofi Nkrumah 10 years ago

    I believe this government finds joy in the hardship of the citizenry otherwise I don't know why this is happening

  • Alberto 10 years ago

    Teachers are even paid only three months after working for a year but they dont strike and u juniors doctors who are trained by teachers are striking. Thank God they have been sacked.

  • Fii- 10 years ago

    This is another attempt to instill fear and divide your front as u seek not only for your betterment but also of de health sector. Keep de fight. You could have been sacked for any other reason aside asking for what is rightf ...
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  • Mawuli George 10 years ago

    Must workers always strike to resolve their grievances ;these doctors are being heartless; after the negotiations; they may claim their arrears anyway but what happens to the lives lost during their striking period ; money is ...
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  • E.K. 10 years ago

    No where in the world would the government take the responsibility of taking care of medical students, nurses, and teachers. Only in poverty striken country like Ghana would do this. How will we move forward? We borrow and gi ...
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  • akas 10 years ago

    FIRING THESE DOCTORS OVER NON PAYMENT OF EARNED COMPENSATION IS UNFAIR, ILLEGAL, AND THE DOCTORS HAVE A RIGHT TO SUE FOR COMPENSATION PLUS ADDITONAL RECOVERIES.

  • Ernest adiepena 10 years ago

    Its very pathetic for Ghanaian to always support wrong things how can someone work over a year and you pay them 3month and they are demanding for the arrears and you sack them , this applied to some teachers and nurses meanwh ...
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  • LOYD GEE 10 years ago

    fools,u always take ur position as a yestick to fool.even the senior doctors r working how much more u,twaaaa doctors

  • Koranteng King 10 years ago

    I worked for 4 straight years, and was paid only three months of salary arrears. in fact this government and its leadership are insensitive.

  • koo 10 years ago

    let us join hands to push for a change in the system not sacking and making mockery of them

  • yao 10 years ago

    They can not say they will sack them

  • Razak Debrah 10 years ago

    l think discipline must work in all the Institutions in other to move the country forward.

  • OP 10 years ago

    You English is very bad.You need to go back to class one.

  • ANDY 10 years ago

    But in real sense the acting director can never sack them after he is not the one who employ them. They can sui the govt

  • BBC 10 years ago

    Is not theiar Salary is allowance correction fools
    Sack who ever on illegal strike

  • Lord Tennison 10 years ago

    What commonsense it is to replace them?Should they work for 9 months and not be paid?How do you expect them to pay their bills?
    Are John Mahama,Seth Terkper ,Dr Wampah and Alfred Oko Vanderpuije not drawing their salaries an ...
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  • Killer 10 years ago

    Fuck you all , the junior doctors are right to go on strik if they haven't been paid madafuckers Ghana leaders you should go to hell

  • sam 10 years ago

    There is a place called U.S.A where you will be appreciated even though in Ghana you are made to believe as a doctor in abroad patients disrespects which is not true.
    You will never have to think about basic things like food ...
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  • JH. New York 10 years ago

    The worker is entitled to his/her Salary
    /Wages,to manage his/her own affair.
    No excuses entertained whatsoever !.
    The Hospital admin did their part on humanitarian grounds and the effort is
    appreciated ; but the Drs are ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    That fool of a doctor called Asare will run away. He is insane. He is approaching retirement and may be trying to win the favour of government. The GMA will chase him away. I cannot stand such idiots.

  • Fathullah 10 years ago

    Hmmmm totally disgusting

  • Godhelp 10 years ago

    That would serve as a deterrent to any such unwanted behaviour from such doctors.They fed very fat on the tax payers covers and as well taken the Hypotocritic oaths.They tend to be rather money ???? minded contrary to their c ...
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  • akrofi 10 years ago

    So you are saying that they should be content with feeding and transport allowances? Do our Ministers on the government payroll ever get salary arrears?
    Sacking a doctor is very easy but you cannot recruit a doctor from the ...
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  • Sadik 10 years ago

    Government of Ghana is not fair.the doctor's should be call back to their duties. government should negotiate with them but not taking the decision of sacking them do you know how much it cost them and their and their familie ...
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  • Asamoah Forson 10 years ago

    Why the government don't stop the MPS PAY and give to the Doctors.

  • abena-kwabena 10 years ago

    This is INSANE, It would be a loss to Ghana and not the young doctors. They would have difficulties in the beginning, but in the end they would be the winners. Their services are needed every where in the world. A responsible ...
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  • ALBERT 10 years ago

    How can some body work for nine month without pay,then when he complains he is sacked.Only in Ghana this will happen

  • osei kwabena 10 years ago

    sometimes doctors should have patience.it be like they are working for the pleasure of salaries,it is indeed cheating,but how could you embark on strike after a discurssion with your officials on unpaid arears not whole sala ...
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  • Dede 10 years ago

    Don't settle for mediocre and stupidity. What prevents them from paying any worker for more than a month.

  • beautiful 10 years ago

    Its a shame for a colleague medical officer to sack his colleagues knowing very well that they need to be paid simply because he is fine and he is enjoying fat 10% from suppliers aside his fat salary. God will judge everyone

  • Oheneba Quaye 10 years ago

    What a crazy country. Sack workers who demand to be paid after working for NINE months without pay. What the newspapers should investigate is whether the CEO was paid during that period. Any of the doctors or dentists who wil ...
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  • My brother's keeper 10 years ago

    If you're tired of the government and so called senior doctor taking you for granted, you should consider joining us here. Contact me directly at: mextex12 @ Hotmail.com

  • political 10 years ago

    They are not talking about their salary, they are talking about their arrears. So re-read artcle again

  • gee 10 years ago

    Massa! Every non fee paying student in gh is covered by govt subsidy ....so don't talk abt doctors as if they have some extra previledge...if u had to take care of HIV and tb patients for 9 months and u weren't paid, u wld st ...
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  • Ewiase 10 years ago

    Only Fools will write such comments. Just go and work for 9 months for free. U stupid foooooools.

  • Campus Ministry Report 10 years ago

    I think, it should be possible to provide funds, from somewhere, for the Doctors.

    An interim arrangement should be made concerning this.

    The Doctors are not demanding anything extraordinary. They have not been paid fo ...
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