The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) have voted at crucial General Assembly meeting to extend their strike action despite calls from various sectors to call it off.
At the meeting, 213 doctors voted for the status quo, while 148 voted to resume duty.
That is by a margin of 65 votes, the doctors voted to continue the strike.
In a statement released by the Ghana Medical Association after its Extra-Ordinary General Meeting held at the Ghana Medical Association House, Korle Bu in Accra, they was a conclusion that: the Association will continue with In-Patient care and also continue to withdraw Out-Patient Department and Emergency Services.
They have however agreed not to resign en masse as threatened by their leadership over an absence of a documented conditions of service.
The General Assembly meeting today by the union of public sector medical doctors � the Ghana Medical Association � was held to decide the next line of action by the agitating doctors who have left their posts in protest of an absence of improved conditions of service.
"We have reached this decision based on the fact that government has not shown enough good faith regarding negotiations for Conditions of Service for doctors in the public sector," the statement said.
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