ATL FM Ghana
The Ghana Medical Association has started
strike action today, affecting hospitals through Ghana.
The association has withdrawn outpatient
services from today, and will follow this by a full strike from February 18 if
the government does not settle their salary issues.
ATL FM news has visited three hospitals in
the Cape Coast metropolis – Central Regional Hospital, District Hospital and
the University of Cape Coast hospital but no one spoken to was willing to go
air with their comments.
From what the ATL witnessed, the hospitals
were busy and doctors were attending to their duties – both emergency and
out-patient cases.
An administrator at the University of Cape
Coast hospital who did not want to be named, said doctors were attending to all
patients and has no information about the strike.
ATL News also spoke to a University of Cape
Coast student who was waiting for treatment at the Central Region Hospital.
He told the station he felt his treatment
was being affected by strike action, and his appointment had been deferred from
last week due to this.
