Doctors' strike accounts for two deaths at
Ridge
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot
Accra, May 6, Ghanadot - Two patients
died at the Ridge Hospital as result
of the strike action by the junior doctors,
according to sources close to the hospital.
According to the source the patients were brought
to the hospital lyesterday afternoon,
but there was no doctor to attend to them.
The junior doctors yesterday declared their support for the
strike action taken by their colleagues at the Komfo Anokye
Teaching Hospital (KATH) with another strike.
They have asked government, in
an ultimatum, to pay in full their
allowances. The ultimatum ends on the 11th
of May when more
action will be considered by the junior doctors in addition to
the strike already put in action by them.
Doctors at Ridge,
KATH and Korle Bu hold the position that if government
does not sanction the hospital authorities to
pay the allowances and all others due after the May 11
deadline then more strikes will follow,
starting with Korle Bu on May 15.
They are certain that these future strikes "will bring
the needed results”.
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