The Ghana Medical Association, GMA, has at the end of its First National Executive Council Meeting in Takoradi called on the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to expedite the commencement of the job re-evaluation exercise in the public health delivery sector.

This is in respect of the implementation of the single spine pay policy before its final implementation in July 2010.

In a statement signed jointly by the President, Dr. Emmanuel Adom Winful and the General Secretary, Dr. Sodzi Sodzie Tettey, the GMA said in 2009, it pointed out gross distortions in the existing relativity in the health sector in the draft consultant’s document on the single spine pay policy.

Subsequently, the distortions have been widely acknowledged by both the Ministry of Health and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.

The Statement noted that while assurances have been given that these widely acknowledged distortions will be corrected through a job re-evaluation exercise, the GMA wishes to reiterate that the correction of the distortion and other anomalies are fundamental to the successful implementation of the new pay policy.

It called on the Ministry of Health to provide the Ministry of Finance with all the relevant data as a matter of urgency for the implementation of the agreement between the Health Ministry and the GMA concerning the payment of 10 percent of Call Duty Facilitation Allowance to Directors.

The statement further called on government to re-constitute and inaugurate the Medical and Dental Council as soon as possible since the delay is affecting regulatory activities in the practice of medicine and dentistry in the country.