The Minister of Health Joseph Yieleh Chireh has received the blessings of President John Evans Atta-Mills to go on a week leave at a crucial stage when public sector doctors have taken off their stethoscope and refused to attend to emergency cases.
The Minister of Communication Haruna Iddrisu, who is acting in Yieleh Chireh�s stead, said his colleague will be off for seven days and does not think it would affect the current crisis ongoing in the health sector.
A lot of people who heard Mr Iddrisu addressing issues of health shuddered and felt the health minister could have sacrificed to postpone his brief sabbatical to find ways of addressing a pressing national emergency.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has been striking over the last six days and has refused to encourage its members to go back to the wards despite an appeal by President John Evans Atta-Mills for them to return.
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