President Akufo-Addo in one of his national broadcasts announced that all frontline health workers in the country helping in the fight against COVID-19 would receive an additional allowance of 50 percent of their basic salary per month.
Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu says government has begun paying frontline health workers the allowances promised them by the government.
However some health workers have taken to social media to express their dissatisfaction about the non-payment of the promised allowance.
But in an interview on Citi News, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu urged the disgruntled workers to exercise patience since payment had begun.
“We had meetings with the Christian hospitals, the quasi institutions, and every terrain of the hospital sector. We met with their leaders and the associations as well, and they were demanding that we should pay them. We told them that we didn’t even have the budget to go that far so we asked them to bring in a list of those that were at the forefront of fighting the disease because in some places we haven’t encountered any COVID case in some facilities, meaning they are not frontline persons.”
“And that is what has delayed the payment, but we have started paying and we have even presented a document to Parliament to tell them how we are managing it. I know for sure that not all will be satisfied but we are still dialoguing and engaging them. From time to time we see new groups coming up, even those who buried the few that have died are also coming in with demands,” he added.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
