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Medical practitioners at the Brong Ahafo Regional Government Hospital and the Sunyani Municipal Hospital continued with their strike directed by the National Executive Council of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to its second day. Dr Jacob Abebrese, Medical Superintendent of the Brong-Ahafo Regional Government Hospital, told the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on Tuesday that they were attending to emergency cases and patients on admission. He appealed to the government to intervene to help resolve the problem to enable them to save lives and render quality services to the people. �With our training and profession, medical practitioners are ready to render quality services to save lives and should not look on for people, especially pregnant women, to die,� he added. Dr Paulina Appiah, Medical Superintendent of the Sunyani Municipal Hospital, said they were also attending to emergency cases and in-patients. However, she said, there were some Cuban doctors and medical assistants in the consulting rooms attending to new patients to save lives. She was optimistic government would initiate measures to resolve the strike to prevent any unfortunate incident in the hospitals. Some patients at the Out Patients Department were waiting in front of the consulting rooms with their laboratory and x-ray reports hoping to be attended to. Other patients said although they heard the news about the strike they were at the hospital to find out the truth while others said they had not heard anything about the strike.