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Founder and Leader of the United Renaissance Party (URP) �Chuck� Kofi Wayo, has implored the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) to arrest and charge doctors at the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC) at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for first degree manslaughter if any loss of life occurred during their strike action yesterday. Mr Wayo wants the doctors at the Cardio Centre who laid down their tools on Monday to demand the re-instatement of their mentor and dismissed Honorary Director, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, to face the full rigors of the law. �You see our institutions don�t work. If these doctors allow somebody to die because of this hierarchy stuff, the BNI should go and arrest every one of them and charge them for first degree manslaughter or murder... They got to understand this is a society and we aren�t playing with human life, do you understand, ...I know they are not well paid so it�s hard for me to fight them or anything like that but you are hired to save human life and you better not let nobody die because you�re going to pay for it dearly. It�s as simple as that,� he said. Commenting on the dismissal of the renowned surgeon in an interview with Alhassan Suhini on Radio Gold�s newspaper review, he opined that the controversy surrounding the revocation of an honorary appointment handed the former Director of the NCTC was needless, since he believed Prof Frimpong-Boateng was not indispensable. Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng was summarily relieved of his post on Thursday, August 25th, by the Minister of Health, Joseph Yieleh Chireh. The letter directed Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng to consider his appointment duly terminated with immediate effect. However, medical staff at the Cardio Centre including specialists and other health workers suspended their services in protest against the arbitrary dismissal of the renowned heart surgeon by the government.