Stop The Exodus ? Doctors Urged

The Deputy Minister of Health, Hon Moses Dani Baah, has appealed to health professionals in the country to end their rush to foreign countries in order to provide the needed health service to the people of Ghana.

?Government, he said, is taking drastic measures to solve the problems that confront the health sector, including the payment of better remuneration to our health workers?.

He urged health professionals to manage the little facilities which are available at the various health centres with much care.

Hon Dani Baah said these at the 44th Annual General Conference of the Ghana Medical Association in Accra last Friday.

He urged health professionals to manage the little facilities which are available at the various health centres with much care.

He cautioned that government will not tolerate corruption and indiscipline in the health services. He, therefore, called on health workers to use the facilities available judiciously.

Dr Jacob Plange-Rhule, president of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) said it is unethical for developed countries to recruit health personnel from countries which are poor and are in need of those professionals.

He urged the developed nations to fund Ghana?s health care-delivery since they are beneficiaries of the little health professionals that Ghana is able to produce.

He called on the government to put in measures aimed at solving the numerous problems faced by the health sector expeditiously.

In an address read on his behalf by Hon Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister for Information and Presidential Affairs, President John Agyekum Kufuor announced that Parliament has approved a $5 million loan to serve as a revolving fund for health services.

He assured health professionals of good remunerations for their work, urging them to stay in the country to assist in its building.

President Kufuor called on Ghanaians to adopt preventive measures because the country can no longer continue to spend 60 per cent of health services budget on preventable diseases.

He appealed to health professionals to take good care of the health facilities provided.