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President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) Dr. Opoku Adusei has warned the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to address all the conditions of service pertaining to the Health Sector. According to him, if government continue to deny workers of their entitlement, they will be forced to go about their duties anyhow; adding until government deals with the causes of strike actions, it will be difficult to stop such industrial actions in the country. Speaking on Oman Fm�s Morning Show, Dr. Opoku Adusei said that the doctors and the dentists will continue their work in 2015 as professionals, but insisted that they cannot work without better condition of service to determine their benefit when they retire. He maintained that every strike action is caused by government and disclosed that some of the things which the GMA expects government to deal with are the market premium and the condition of service package which should have been handed out to them in 2014. �With the strike actions, it is like the Dumsor Dumsor situation in the country; if the cause of the action is not resolved, it will continue. The issue is that, we went to Medical School to become Doctors and Dentists and we didn�t attend strike school and there is saying that there is a cause for every action�..the very issues we went on strike for, the government has refused to address them; our salary bindings, increment gabs, market premium and condition of service have not been addressed and how do you expect us to work effectively? Until government deals with things that cause strike actions, it will be difficult to stop strike actions in the country�, he opined. He therefore call on the government to first deal with the cause of the strike actions in the country by strictly adhere to every agreement which will make the work of the service effective for all Ghanaians.