Accra, July 13, GNA – Junior doctors of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital have expressed dissatisfaction with their new basic salaries as shown in the recently implemented Price Waterhouse report, saying “it is shameful”.
This was contained in a statement issued in Accra on Monday in response to the government’s new salary scheme aimed at correcting salary disparities in the civil and public services.
The new policy, which was implemented last month, after three years of study by the stakeholders, is saddled with serious problems such as very low, zero or negative salaries for some workers, including medical doctors, in the civil service.
The doctors’ noted that the Price Waterhouse, contrary to the many promises made by various government officials that it would solve the salary problem, “has rather worsened it”.
“We are completely dissatisfied with, and totally disappointed at, our basic salaries as shown in the Price Waterhouse report implementation and we urge the government to take serious steps to address the basic salary problems for doctors once and for all,” it said.
The statement contended that the current state of affairs is a proof that the government is not committed to reversing the brain-drain problem to retain doctors, adding: “the number of doctors in the country will continue to dwindle if nothing is done about the salaries”.
