The Minority Caucus in Parliament has threatened to embark on a demonstration if the government fails to clear all the containers of essential medical supplies locked up at the Tema Port.
This follows a two-week ultimatum given by the Health Minister to officers to clear the consignment donated to Ghana by the Global Fund.
The Health Minister, Bernard Okoe Boye assured that he will be compelled to visit the port and sit there until the right thing is done after the two-week ultimatum has elapsed.
Addressing journalists, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, charged the government to do the needful and clear the containers.
“We are a group of reasonable people and so we have heard the plea by the minister responsible for help that we should give him two weeks although it doesn’t make any sense to plead for two weeks to clear commodities that have been at the port for one good year, we have heard him but we are sending a clear signal and warning that within his own two weeks, all, and the emphasis is all, all the containers, containing these drugs should be cleared from the port.
Not some, as they have been doing,” he said.
Kwabena Mintah Akandoh again urged the government to respond to the calls by the Medical and Laboratory Professional Workers Union (MLPWU) to prevent them from leaving the shores of the country.
