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The Minister of Health, Mr Alex Segbefia, has given an assurance that striking junior doctors of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) will return to work hopefully today.

He said the issue had been “resolved up to a point” and it was the hope of the ministry that the doctors would rescind their decision, if not today, then in the shortest possible time.

Mr Segbefia gave the assurance when members of the Technical Working Group on the Framework for Negotiating Conditions of Service for public sector health workers submitted their final report to him at the ministry yesterday.

He said he had spoken with the Chief Executive Officer of KATH, Dr Joseph Akpaloo, for him to convince the doctors to rescind their decision.

“I am confident that we will be able to get doctors back to work soon,” he said.

Background

The non-payment of salaries for almost nine months led junior doctors at KATH to withdraw their services on Monday.

Some of the doctors locked their consulting rooms and refused to attend to patients.

The most affected unit of the hospital following the strike was the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department.