Minority Threatens Street Protest over Locked-Up Medical Supplies at Port
The Minority Caucus in Parliament has threatened to stage a demonstration if the government fails to clear all containers of essential medical supplies currently locked up at the Tema Port. This follows a two-week ultimatum given by Health Minister Bernard Okoe Boye to officers to clear the consignment donated to Ghana by the Global Fund.
Health Minister Boye assured that he would personally visit the port and stay there until the containers are cleared if the two-week ultimatum is not met.
Speaking to Journalists on Thursday, June 20, 2024, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament, urged the government to act promptly.
He continued, “Remember, we addressed you on the locked-up commodities and medications at the port. And as you know, we, the members of parliament from the Minority side, will not relent in our effort to push the government to clear these locked-up commodities and drugs until they are cleared from the port. That must be put on record, and as we speak, not all the containers containing drugs and commodities at the port have been cleared.
“We are a group of reasonable people and so we have heard the plea by the minister responsible for health that we should give him two weeks.
“Although it doesn’t make any sense to plead for two weeks to clear commodities that have been at the port for one good year, we have heard him, but we are sending a clear signal and warning that within his own two weeks, all, and the emphasis is all, all the containers containing these drugs should be cleared from the port. Not some, as they have been doing.”
He also urged the government to urgently address the grievances of the Medical Laboratory Professional Workers’ Union to prevent health workers from leaving the country in search of better opportunities.
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