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Medical Doctors at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) who were expected to be at work on Monday, August 24 are yet to fully resume, checks by the Ghana News Agency(GNA) as at 0930hours had revealed. A large number of patients had reported in anticipation of the arrival of the doctors to attend to them at the Out Patients Department (OPD). At the emergency wards visited by the GNA, nurses and students doctors from the University of Cape Coast Medical School were at post attending to patients. The nurses expressed optimism that the arrival of the doctors would reduce the huge pressure on them. Some of the patients, who spoke to the GNA were happy that the doctors had called off their strike and would soon attend to them. Sharing her ordeal during the striking period, one Madam Fauzia Mohammed whose right leg was in POP said she felt pains in the leg when the time to see her doctor elapsed and thanked God that she will soon see her doctor. Efforts to speak to the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Daniel Asare could not materialize as he was said to be in a meeting. At the Cape Coast Metro Hospital, the two doctors assigned to the facility, were at post, seeing to patients, who were trickling in for treatment and those on admission, as at 0945hours when the GNA was leaving the facility. Mr. David Kwamifoli, the Hospital administrator told the GNA that the hospital was not so much affected by the strike because they had volunteer doctors from the United States whose annual visit coincided with the strike. Members of the Ghana Medical Association went on strike to press home their demands for better conditions of service.