NHIA Surprised Over Strike Threats By Staff
Deputy Director in-Charge of Corporate Strategic Affairs, Eric Ametor Quame says he will be surprised if workers of the National Health Insurance Scheme actually agitating for pay rise.
Ametor Quame explains staff of the National Health Insurance Scheme last year enjoyed a twenty percent pay rise when public sector workers under the Controller and Accountant General’s Department were asked to be given a pay rise of twenty percent.
Workers of the National Health Insurance Scheme are threatening to embark on a nationwide strike from this weekend to protest poor remuneration and motivation.
According to the workers, for the past seven years that they joined the scheme, the National Health Insurance Authority has not adjusted their salaries.
They also claim there are discrepancies in the salary structure, adding that workers of the scheme in the districts are being discriminated against although they do more work than their colleagues at the national level.
Leadership of the workers says should discussions with officials of the authority fail to yield any desirable results, the union would be left with no option than to embark on the strike.
However Eric Ametor Quame discloses there are talks already underway to negotiate new conditions of service for workers of the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Meanwhile Eric Ametor Quame has urged representatives of the agitated workers to brief their members on outcome of series of meetings they have attended.
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