The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health has called on the Laboratory Scientists at KATH to return to work to save a life.
The Committee has also asked the striking Scientists to call on them by petition with their concerns for redress.
At a joint press conference in Parliament on 27th May 2021, the Chairman of Committee, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie said, we want them to come to us and shall help resolve the issues.
I have been there for them and we are still here for them as “Members of Parliament”.
On his part, the Minority spokesperson on Health Kwabena Mintah Akandoh called for cool heads to prevail as he admonished stakeholders in the health services to respect themselves irrespective of the department one found himself or herself, “the work of a cleaner is as important as a nurse or a doctor at the theater”. “We Members of Parliament, President and Ministers, we are supposed to be the servants of the people and, therefore, when issues of this nature come, we must be available to listen to them,” he noted.
Members of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Chapter of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS-KATH), declared a sit-down strike starting Thursday, 20th May 2021.
The strike, according to the leadership of the Association, is to protest the decision of the hospital’s management to keep two medical specialists in key positions at the Laboratory Services Directorate.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah
