Nurses strike today over unpaid salaries

Health services at the major hospitals across the country will be interrupted today [Wednesday] February 3, 2016, as over 7,000 nurses belonging to the Coalition of Unpaid Nurses and Midwives, are embarking on an indefinite nationwide strike from today, to demand unpaid salaries.

According to the group, they have had to embark on the action because of the refusal of government to honor its pledge to pay them, a situation that is affecting their livelihood

A National Coordinator of the group, Douglas Adu-Fokuo, believes the strike will compel government to pay what is due them.

He explained that the health ministry had earlier announced that it had issued clearance for over 7,000 nurses adding that the assurance suggests that they will be paid all their accumulated salaries.

“We the Coalition kept quiet on this issue and started a survey to collate data. Surprisingly, only 30 percent of the 7,000 were paid,” he stated.

 Adu-Fokuo  further explained that “we are embarking on this strike because the negotiations we were having with government officials and authorities involved have failed and we can’t continue. Everyday, we are given unfulfilled promises; enough of the promise. This time we want to see action. We want to see the money reflecting in our accounts before we call off the strike, if not we will still be in our homes and we won’t go to work.”

Nurses across the country in October last year resumed work after a week-long strike over the same issue.

The call-off followed assurances that the Controller and Accountant General had released an amount of GHc756, 000 to pay them.

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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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BREAKING! President Mugabe had a Heart Attack; Feared Dead; VP Acting President? – Metro UK

A letter to a Zimbabwean news website has suggested that the country’s president Robert Mugabe has suffered a heart attack Metro UK is reporting.

The letter suggests the 91-year-old was on holiday with his family when he fell ill and saying that it was unlikely that he would survive.

 Metro.co.uk has contacted the Zimbabwean embassy to find out whether there is any truth in the rumours and there have previously been hoaxes about Mugabe’s death.

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Don't Toy With Our Peace – DI Warns EC

Policy think tank Danquah Institute (DI) has asked the Electoral Commission not to go ahead with its planned limited registration of fresh voters ahead of the November polls until it has implemented a validation exercise recommended by the Panel of five eminent members. Executive Director of DI Nana Attobrah Quaicoe told journalists at a press conference in Accra on Monday February 1 that the validation process will ensure that close to 600,000 names of dead people are removed from the 2012 register of voters. “Ladies and gentlemen of the media, now, how come this most sensible and cost-effective proposal from the Panel of experts is being totally ignored by the EC? We say it is being totally ignored because the EC has already given a date for the limited registration, which is from March 21 to April 4, and that exercise has nothing to do with validation, as currently planned. “In our view, the period for limited registration is perfect for validation as well,” Mr Quaicoe said, adding: “The Danquah Institute, by this news conference, is asking the EC to postpone the date for the limited registration for another month or so, consider the proposal from the Panel and work towards incorporating validation with the limited registration exercise.” “This would only mean that those who turn up for validation would have to join one queue and those who show up for new registration, as first time voters, would also have their own queue since their exercise would require the filling of forms, and having their fingerprints and photographs taken and a new card issued. “By this, the exhibition exercise, which will take place a couple of months after, will be done for the complete register of those who were validated and those who registered anew. “Indeed, the EC can go as far as even presenting fresh laminated cards for those who will go through validation during the validation/limited registration exercise. We estimate that this whole exercise of validation, even if it involves the issuance of a new laminated voter ID card, should not cost the state more than an additional $15 million. But, we also know that it would, once and for all, answer all the main issues that those calling for a new credible register have raised. The benefit is that we will go into this year’s elections with our nation at peace with itself,” Mr Quaicoe added.

Source: classfmonline.com