From Wednesday, May 26, 2021, the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has vowed to go on an indefinite national strike.
The threat is in support of their colleagues at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), who launched a one-week sit-down strike last week after two medical officers were transferred to the hospital’s Laboratory Services Directorate.
Dennis Adu-Gyasi, the Association’s National Public Relations Officer, said on Citi News in Accra, “What is happening at KATH is an affront to the discipline of medical laboratory research in Ghana.
“The leadership of Komfo Anokye is not willing to heed the scientists’ appeal, and it continues to impose medical officers on the practitioners. “He said the organization “thinks it is a matter that needs to be followed up at the national level” following an emergency meeting with its executives. We believe that if whatever happens by Wednesday, we will step it up and intensify the strike to a national level.”
Meanwhile, pending an appeal from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to call off their demonstration and instead table their complaints, KATH members are continuing their sit-down strike.
Last Wednesday, the KATH GAMLS started a one-week strike to oppose the addition of two medical officers to the service.
They have given the hospital’s authority and the Ministry of Health a one-week deadline to revoke the two medical officers’ appointments.
The members believe that the recruitment of the two medical officers to the department was an interference into the medical laboratory technician trade, which is governed by an act, according to them.
Mr Ernest Badu Boateng, the association’s local chief, told Graphic Online that at an emergency meeting last Wednesday, members decided to put down their tools for a week in defiance of the two medical officers being placed on them.
Source : peacefmonline.com
