The Ministry of Health has assured that salary arrears owed to junior doctors, nurses, and midwives will be resolved.
The assurances come as the Junior Doctors’ Association of Ghana (JDA‑GH) threatens a nationwide strike from October 7, over unpaid salaries ranging from 10 to 14 months.
It also follows a protest by nurses and midwives in Accra on 2 October, demanding payment for between nine and ten months of unpaid wages.
According to a statement from the JDA, hundreds of junior doctors have been working without pay for 10 to 14 months.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Breakfast Show on 3 October, Ministry of Health spokesperson Tony Goodman admitted the problems stemmed largely from “rushed recruitments” by the previous administration.
According to him, many health workers had been added to payrolls without proper financial clearance, producing a backlog of anomalies.
“We had about a thousand pharmacists who had completed their service but had not received their salaries, but they have now been paid.”
He said some pharmacists, medical officers, and doctors had already been paid after being caught in the same web of errors.
“With the medical doctors, it was a mix‑up that has already been cleared and will be dealt with,” Goodman said.
He assured that the are aware of those who need to be paid and are actively working on it.
“As of yesterday, we have dealt with it. We now know those who have been paid and those who are yet to be paid,” he stressed.
