The Ghana Physician Assistants Association has suspended its strike after meeting with the National Labour Commission and the Ministry of Health concerning their working conditions.
In a crunch meeting today (Wednesday, August 2, 2023), the National Labour Commission issued a 28-day ultimatum to the Ministry of Health to address the concerns of the physician assistants.
The president of the association, Peter Akuduge Ayamba, addressing the media after the meeting with NLC and MoH noted that they would continue the strike if the Ministry of Health cannot meet their demand after the deadline given by the NLC.
“The National Labour Commission heard us and directed that within 28 days, they should engage us and report to them on how to address the concerns we have raised. We are not happy as an association with the posture of the government and the fact that they have been dragging their legs all this while. It was because of that that’s why we are where we are now”.
“And we are saying that based on the ruling and the intervention of the labour commission and the fact that we are law-abiding citizens and unions for that matter, we are calling on our membership to resume work. Because we are temporarily calling off this strike so that we will explore all other options if by the deadline that has been given by the labour commission nothing is done,” he stated.
“So we are saying that we will explore all other interventions, which include our non-renewal position that we took that with their intervention, we had to come back. We are also exploring the possibility of working to rule policy which means that we will do according to what we are supposed to do, nothing more, nothing less,” he added.
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