The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has justified its decision to place two physicians at some key positions at the Laboratory Service Directorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with Citi News, management reiterated its resolve not to heed the call for the removal of the said doctors from the directorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They further explained that the decision to place the two Physicians at the Directorate was endorsed by the hospital\u2019s governing board and does not violate any law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe two doctors that they are referring to have received the requisite training certification to work as laboratory physicians, and therefore management was right in posting them to the laboratory service directorate where they were supposed to go and work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen we got the latest letter from the hospital\u2019s branch of the Ghana Association of Medical Scientists, we engaged them and told them at the moment, there is a court decision on the matter, and even though there is no board in place at the moment, the hospital cannot decide on the request that they are making, which is to reassign the two doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Members of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Chapter of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS-KATH), declared a one-week sit-down strike on Thursday, 20th May, 2021 to protest the decision of the hospital\u2019s management to keep the two medical specialists in key positions at the Directorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n