The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has condemned the new hospital charges announced by the government and made an urgent call for review.

In a statement signed by Mr Pius Dakora, National Secretary on behalf of the National Executive Committee, the NUGS viewed the increase as

“yet another attempt to deprive the people of their right to good health.”

The statement continued: “In a situation where most people are living on subsistence economies (sic) where salaried workers received ridiculously low wages and where many more are either unemployed or have been declared redundant we consider it most cruel, unfair and disgraceful for anyone to conceive of Putting such high prices on the most basic right of man – the right to health.

The statement further described as “a daily admission fee at a price far above sick, miscalculation”, the decision to peg a what it would take the average worker a whole day’s toil to earn”. It also registered the student body’s

“utter disapproval of all other anti-people policies such as the laying off of workers, increase in school fees and higher transportation costs”.

The NUGS statement ended by drawing the attention of the NDC “to its initial promise of liberating the people from the shackles of poverty, disease, ignorance and hunger and preventing the hospitals from becoming graveyards”.

 

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