The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has dismissed calls by Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh for striking nurses to return to the negotiation table.
In an interview on Channel One Newsroom on Saturday, June 7, the association's Public Relations Officer, Joseph Krampah, emphasised that the union is not interested in renegotiating already agreed terms.
He stressed that the union spent several years negotiating the agreement and is only seeking its implementation, adding that if the Finance Minister signs the necessary documents, GRNMA is open to engagement on a clear roadmap for execution, but not to reopen talks. "This issue is coming from the Honourable Minister that we should go and sit down, it is not about sitting down.
It is like everything that has been done has been done already, and it has been signed, and it has become something for the employer to implement. "So, calling us to come and sit down as if to renegotiate on what is going on, we took several years to sit down and negotiate for this condition of service before it was signed.
