The Health Services Workers Union (HSWU) in the Ashanti Region have addressed issues affecting their members despite their tremendous efforts in rendering services to achieve holistic and comprehensive health care delivery.

They have threatened that government's failure to attend to their trials will lead to “an advice in a language they best understand”.

The health sector workforce, which comprises of numerous professions with the exception of DOCTORS, Nurses, Aesthetics, Pharmacist and all other categories of staff in the sector are members of the noble union.

In a statement released on Friday, December 13, 2019 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital signed by the Senior Regional Industrial Relations Officer of the Ashanti Region, Stephen Kwame Mensah, the group has voiced that their grievances towards government and expect a quick response to better their working condition in the health sector.

According to the Health Services Workers Union, “a collective agreement was signed between Health Agencies and Health Agencies and Facilities under the Ministry of Health and the HEALTH Service Workers’ Union of TUC Ghana on December, 2015 in accordance with the Labor Act, 2003 (Act 651); the collective agreement which takes place precedence over any other existing agreement was to take effect from 1st January, 2016,” he addressed.

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Mr. Kwame Mensah read that the Health facilities are not implementing the selective implementation, which is mainly attributed to the fact that its employment is dependent on Internally Generated Funds from Individual health facilities whose IGF are woefully inadequate or non-existent meanwhile some category of health professionals have their condition of service consolidated in their salary and paid from Controller and Accountant General.

He also disclosed that some members have been denied yearly incremental notches with checks indicating that the Controller and Accountant General’s Department’s software used in paying Single Spine Salaries do not have yearly incremental notches. The yearly increments effected manually according to the Union deprive most of the members their yearly increment since they were migrated in 2012.

With a few concerns outlined by the HSWU, Ashanti Region, members have called on various stakeholders to have their worries settled.

“We the members of the Health Services Workers’ Union in the Ashanti Region hereby resolve that all our long awaited concerns enumerated above should be resolved by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Employment and Labour RELATIONS, Fair Wages and Salaries Commission and the Controller and Accountant’s General’s Department,” he spoke.

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