Payroll shake-up looms over doctors rural posting standoff

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Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 month ago

Hello youth of Ghana......You can take your own life with medicine.......for instance 15 paracetamol at once. Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

Hello youth of Ghana......You can take your own life with medicine.......for instance 15 paracetamol at once. Or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.
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Kwame Peter 1 month ago

Everywhere in Ghana is Ghana true,but some areas are deprived due to the uneven development that we have,postings must be done with this in mind so that those posted to areas designated as deprived are offered juicy allowance ...
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Everywhere in Ghana is Ghana true,but some areas are deprived due to the uneven development that we have,postings must be done with this in mind so that those posted to areas designated as deprived are offered juicy allowances and other pecks unavailable in the cities and urban areas to entice them and not this 'by force' orders by incompetent Akando.
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 month ago

The issue of forcing Medical Doctors and Staff to some deprived, uncomfortable and hostile areas needs to be done with diplomacy and wisdom. Do you think that Madical Doctors will accept postings easily to places like BAWKU a ...
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The issue of forcing Medical Doctors and Staff to some deprived, uncomfortable and hostile areas needs to be done with diplomacy and wisdom. Do you think that Madical Doctors will accept postings easily to places like BAWKU and other very hostile areas? Did they have free Medical training in Ghana? No. Some of them even had problems with accommodation as Medical Students.
The Minister should use wisdom and not compulsion. Newly trained Nurses and Medical Doctors can be given low Interest loans to purchase vehicles that are not expensive and then made to sign a bond to remain at the areas that they have been posted for a number of years.
The Minister and communities should make the areas that Medical Professionals are posted to should be comfortable for them.
Let me tell you that Ghanaian trained Medical Doctors and Nurses are about the best in Africa. They are wanted everywhere, including even Europe, Canada and the USA. Let them cross over to even our neighboring countries and they shall be paid in US Dollars. In the end, Ghana will lose because we have spent a lot of money in training them.
I served a number of years before I left Ghana legally for Greener Pastures. I have retired but still work in the Educational Service of the country where I am. My 401K that can be paid to me is more than enough than any Government employer can be paid. Let our Ghanaian Trained Medical Professionals just jump to any West African Country and the Person will be paid in the equivalent of USD.
The young Medical Professionals are very young and can be treated very comfortably and they shall work at deprived and uncomfortable areas. I remember going to Dumbai to sell my books at the Teacher Training College there and falling sick. The town had a very nice modern hospital but there was only one qualified and Certified Medical Medical Doctor. The rest left for elsewhere in Ghana, Nigeria and other places in Ghana. Don’t force the young Medical Professionals, work with them and pamper them with just incentives that young professionals will want. What about giving Nurses Motorbikes so that they can ride to work from any more comfortable towns where they can choose to stay.
Let me respectfully ask the Minister if he or she would want to stay at Kyebi Panor, Asuboi or OTWE BEWE ADUA and work in Accra? Mr. Minister, do you know the number of Medical Staff that are Africans and are needed in South Africa, Namibia, and even in Togo?
Mr. Minister, work with the Newly Trained Nurses and Doctors as well as the other Healthcare Workers. Your treat is very useless. Let there be an advertisement for Medical Professionals from USA and Canada and see how many Healthcare Workers Ghana shall lose. This is the time for negotiations, understanding and compromise and not bullying.
DE 1 month ago

Its simple, they can stay home and enjoy the city with no salary. If the minister cannot force them they cannot also force the state to pay them as you said the state didnt fund their Education!! Doctors are allover palestine ...
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Its simple, they can stay home and enjoy the city with no salary. If the minister cannot force them they cannot also force the state to pay them as you said the state didnt fund their Education!! Doctors are allover palestine and pround of their profesionalism, its only Ghana everyone wanting to be posted in the city, just for wealth nothing more
the Villager 1 month ago

Some time ago, we had whites working as volunteers for free in Africa. the USA had Peace Corps and the UK had VSOs. They taught in Ghana schools. Where is that spirit?

Some time ago, we had whites working as volunteers for free in Africa. the USA had Peace Corps and the UK had VSOs. They taught in Ghana schools. Where is that spirit?
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 month ago

The Professionals who worked in Ghana as Peace Corps were paid by the USA in Ghana. Note that they were only given stipends here but were paid huge sums of money in the USA. Before I left Ghana, I worked as an educationist an ...
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The Professionals who worked in Ghana as Peace Corps were paid by the USA in Ghana. Note that they were only given stipends here but were paid huge sums of money in the USA. Before I left Ghana, I worked as an educationist and also worked in Orientation Programs for the US Citizens who came to Ghana to learn how to become comfortable in Ghana. They went back home with an accumulated money waiting for them in the USA.. And do you know that some of them were treated specially by Uncle Sam because they worked for the CIA and spied on Ghana when Efo Julor John Rawlings and Boakye Djan were foolishly fooling around. Those US Volunteers knew more about Ghana than even Government Officials knew. Uncle Sam doesn’t do things for free.
the Villager 1 month ago

Are the doctors not going to be paid?
BTW, do you know that some of the Peace Corps had to carry buckets looking for water in some Northern villages something they never dreamt of? Abroad getting water is a take-for-granted ...
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Are the doctors not going to be paid?
BTW, do you know that some of the Peace Corps had to carry buckets looking for water in some Northern villages something they never dreamt of? Abroad getting water is a take-for-granted utility
Agya Yaw 1 month ago

Hey Akandoh stop running your mouth if you have the guts go ahead and removed the names of the Doctors who will not report at their duty posts you guy's have lied to them to gain power and now just listen to yourself shame u ...
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Hey Akandoh stop running your mouth if you have the guts go ahead and removed the names of the Doctors who will not report at their duty posts you guy's have lied to them to gain power and now just listen to yourself shame unto mahama i don't blame you Ghanaians should blame themselves simple because they have short memories as you earlier on .
Abotsi 1 month ago

How serious is this Minister? Is he telling me that he has stated paying someone who did not report at his station? Who did the validation? Does he not know that paying someone who is not at post amounts to causing financial ...
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How serious is this Minister? Is he telling me that he has stated paying someone who did not report at his station? Who did the validation? Does he not know that paying someone who is not at post amounts to causing financial loss?

Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 month ago

The Medical Professionals working in Ghana are not even paid regularly. Are there not Nurses in Ghana who have worked for about two years and have not been paid. Some of them got to the Caribbeans and are paid in US Dollars r ...
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The Medical Professionals working in Ghana are not even paid regularly. Are there not Nurses in Ghana who have worked for about two years and have not been paid. Some of them got to the Caribbeans and are paid in US Dollars regularly. Let the Carribeans open their gates and see the number of Healthcare Professionals and other workers including Teachers and Maintenance Workers who shall leave Ghana. The Minister is barking garbage and holy shit.
Mengistu 1 month ago

WELL DONE MR AKANDOH.SOME NURSES ARE READY TO WORK IN THE RULAL AREAS. SACK THOSE WHO ALWAYS WANT TO STAY IN ACCRA...

WELL DONE MR AKANDOH.SOME NURSES ARE READY TO WORK IN THE RULAL AREAS. SACK THOSE WHO ALWAYS WANT TO STAY IN ACCRA...
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 month ago

Stop running your mouth and goofing around. Do you know of any Medical Professionals who will want to work at Bawku? Possibly your family and deranged friends will want to. I will never allow any of my close family members an ...
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Stop running your mouth and goofing around. Do you know of any Medical Professionals who will want to work at Bawku? Possibly your family and deranged friends will want to. I will never allow any of my close family members and friends to work at places like Bawku, Sabsugu , and Nyive in the Volta region. Let the Minister send his close family members to go and work at Bawku.
K.k 1 month ago

It's no big deal. No work, no salary period.

It's no big deal. No work, no salary period.
Mouth mouth 1 month ago

Wen will Akandoh visit Afari military hospital and Sewua regional hospital all under construction
These politicians should sit up and draw work plans that will result in lasting monuments wen they leave office and stop thes ...
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Wen will Akandoh visit Afari military hospital and Sewua regional hospital all under construction
These politicians should sit up and draw work plans that will result in lasting monuments wen they leave office and stop these press conferences where funds are wasted on pressmen who are always hiding the truth
They should now look at cmb and randy karma will never forgive them
BLAMING THE DOCTORS?- ghanawatch 1 month ago

The governmwnt must critically examine the factors preventing doctors from accepting postings to rural areas and put measures in place to make postings to rural areas more attractive to doctors.Lack of potable water.decent ac ...
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The governmwnt must critically examine the factors preventing doctors from accepting postings to rural areas and put measures in place to make postings to rural areas more attractive to doctors.Lack of potable water.decent accomodation electricity and the tools needed to work to save lives will not encourage doctors to accept postings to rural areas.
Kwa 1 month ago

Only medical staff from the rural areas should be posted there. Bawku doctors and nurses to Bawku. Avetime nurses and doctors to Avetime. Krobo nurses and doctors to Krobo

Only medical staff from the rural areas should be posted there. Bawku doctors and nurses to Bawku. Avetime nurses and doctors to Avetime. Krobo nurses and doctors to Krobo
Papasi 1 month ago

Veet very stupid so called minister ! He's not intelligent at all !

Veet very stupid so called minister ! He's not intelligent at all !
Dadabas trained as doctors 1 month ago

Go to all the medical schools, and you will see that over 90% of trainee doctors are all dadabas, born and bred in the cities, well-connected, and you want them to go to rural areas. They will not go, but they will still rece ...
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Go to all the medical schools, and you will see that over 90% of trainee doctors are all dadabas, born and bred in the cities, well-connected, and you want them to go to rural areas. They will not go, but they will still receive salaries.
The medical schools must review their admission policies and accept lower grades from rural schools.

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