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Beyond Mistrust: Tweaking the Doctor-Employer Relationship

Friday, June 05, 2009

By Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, General Secretary Ghana Medical Association

TetteyFollow the intrigues of salary negotiations between Ghana’s governments and the medical fraternity.  In Ghana and most African countries “health workers do not have any document that spells out the terms and conditions of their service” We at AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI have long argued, that access to health care cannot be a sanctioned human right when the basic infrastructures and reasonably well-paid doctors and nurses are non-existent. Add absence of good drinking water and good food and the real poverty profiling of diseases stare activists for free access to healthcare and health products in the face.