Doctors In Crunch Meeting In Accra To Decide On Mass Resignation


Doctors across the country are currently locked up in a crunch meeting at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital in Accra to take a decision on whether to resign en-mass Doctors at public health institutions have for the past two weeks abandoned the wards and withdrawn  all emergency services over  better conditions of service. 

A statement signed by its President Dr Kwabena Opoku-Adusei and General Secretary Dr Frank Serebour at the end of the 4th National Executive Council meeting of the Ghana Medical Association in Koforidua on Wednesday said the Council is mindful of the various developments including appeals by various groups in the country and has therefore decided that an Extra Ordinary General Assembly be held to review the situation.

Meanwhile, more people are said to be dying at the Brong-Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani, following the industrial unrest of members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA).

A security source at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Hospital told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) during a visit on Wednesday that,  he could count as much as 30 deaths since last week, saying,  many of them died because there were no doctors to attend to them.

“Those who even died at night are not part,” it said.
According to the source,  nurses at the facility had failed to attend to,  and admit the many patients who thronged the facility daily.

The nurses are only attending to patients who are already on admission.

During the visit,  many patients were seen desperately hawking at the hospital, while some of them were also seen arriving to seek medication.

One of the doctors who was found walking around the hospital declined to comment on the issue.

All attempts to contact Dr Jacob Yaw Abebrese, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, failed,  as he was not on duty, while his mobile phone was switched off.

Some parts of this report is from Ghana News Agency (GNA)

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