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President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Adusei Poku has called on the Presidency to bring to check the utterances and conduct of the Head of Public Affairs of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), Earl Ankrah, which according to him is not helping in the resolution of the impasse between government and the GMA. �In one breath, the President is pleading with Doctors to go back to work and in another breath, excuse me to say, some �kids� are also getting people angry by spewing invectives all around. How would we go back to work?� he questioned furiously. �He is only a PRO and does not understand the real issues because he is most of the time absent from our meetings. He does not comprehend the medical aspect of our discussions. He is hired to insult or insult to be paid. So we should disregard everything he says,� he added. Dr. Adusei Poku made this harsh critic in reaction to the assertion by Earl Ankrah that, the GMA is attempting to bamboozle the Commission into submitting to its will, but the FWSC remains resolute in the discharge of its duties and for that matter, no amount of rhetoric by the GMA would move them. The President of GMA maintained that such remarks �annoys� some them and entrenches the positions of striking unions which would not bring a quick resolution to the issues. According to him, such unguided statements must totally be disregarded so as to make a head way in the matter and bring relief to thousands of people across the country who needs the services of medical practitioners. The labour front has been hit with a series of industrial actions lately, starting from the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (GNAGRAT), followed by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and now the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and Government Hospital Pharmacists. He refuted claims that the GMA front is divided with doctors in the Eastern and Volta Regions having defied the directive from the National Executives of the Association to lay down their tools.