Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has expressed disgust over the demands by striking medical doctors in the country.
Speaking on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Kwesi Pratt wondered why the doctors would continually make “unreasonable” and unrealistic demands.
According to him, though the doctors may have genuine concerns over their conditions of service, they should be moderate in their demands and ensure that they reach a consensus with government.
Mr. Pratt however questioned the doctors' claims of no better conditions of service for them; for which reason they are on strike.
“Is such claim true? Moving from house man to consultant physician, is it not a condition of service? Every year we increase the doctors’ salary. The process that we follow in increasing their salary (the necessary things); is it not condition of service? Recently, we heard that the doctors had met with the government and discussed something we call ‘additional duty hour allowance’. Is that also not a condition of service? When doctors go for leave, they have quite a number of weeks they go on leave. Is that also not condition of service?”
“So, if we have all these procedures; how can anybody claim that we don’t have condition of service?” he rhetorically asked.
To him, some striking doctors may afford to work in private hospitals and still earn a living while on strike while others, basically those doctors positioned in rural hospitals, may not have the luxury of such a practice.
Therefore, in his view, the nationwide strike may be to the benefit of the doctors who have part-time jobs with private hospitals.
Thus, to him, due to these variations, it is only prudent that the doctors reconsider their decision. |
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