The Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anesthetists has threatened to lay down their tools if a Memorandum of Understanding reached with the government does not receive the needed attention by duty bearers.
The Association in April embarked on a partial nationwide strike over what they said was the Medical and Dental Council’s attempt to change their title from Certified Registered Anesthetists to Physician Assistants.
The strike was later called off after an agreement with the Ghana Health Service.
However, the Association is threatening another strike from July 8 due to what the President of the Association, Jacob Wumbei called government’s failure in respecting the terms of the agreement reached.
“We want to go on a strike because we do not think it is right to take our patients for a ride and once they came that the issue was within, I would have expected that by now we would have gotten somewhere but virtually nothing. We have not heard anything. We are chasing them and looking for them. Nobody cares about what is happening.”
Anaesthetists’ strike unfortunate – Medical and Dental Council
The Medical and Dental Council had expressed disappointment over the recent partial strike embarked on by the Association.
Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council, Eli Atipkui was hopeful the Association would rescind its decision and return to the discussion table.
“I find the action quite unfortunate…In every institution, once concerns come out, you discuss those concerns and see how those concerns can be addressed.”
But the Association said at the time that, it will only call off the strike after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Medical and Dental Council.
