Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists have suspended their nationwide strike.

The Anaesthetists are expected to resume work across the country today, Thursday, 6 February 2020.

The Association suspended the strike following a “fruitful deliberation and goodwill shown by stakeholders and the leadership of the union in a meeting held on the 5th of February, 2020.”

The Association in a statement urged all members to “commence delivery of anaesthetist services to all forms of surgeries”.

The strike was due to attempts by the Medical and Dental Council to change their name from the Certified Registered Anaesthetists to Physician Assistants.

The Association also said that the Medical and Dental Council’s attempt to introduce a new curriculum for their training in a bid to change the already existing Bachelor of Science Anesthesia to Bachelor of Science Physician Assistants is a violation of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act 857 (Act 2013).