'Don't treat health workers as scapegoats' - GMA president reacts to Amissah death report

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RAS MARLEY 6 days ago

Look at this FOOLISH DOCTOR!!!

Look at this FOOLISH DOCTOR!!!
Sikiratu Muhammed 6 days ago

Toilet self is better than him. No wonder one guy went there and gave them the beatings of their lives leading to shoulder fractures. His face is like the escape goat he is talking about.

Toilet self is better than him. No wonder one guy went there and gave them the beatings of their lives leading to shoulder fractures. His face is like the escape goat he is talking about.
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 days ago

Before we rain abuses on the Medical Staff, let us find out if provisions are made for emergency Medical Services at the Hospitals at even the District Hospitals. Every serious Medical Matter is referred to KORLEBU or KATH. I ...
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Before we rain abuses on the Medical Staff, let us find out if provisions are made for emergency Medical Services at the Hospitals at even the District Hospitals. Every serious Medical Matter is referred to KORLEBU or KATH. I have chanced to visit my family member at KORLEBU and the Medical Staff are overwhelmed with work without the adequate Medical Facilities and Medications. At KORLEBU, there are sometimes no places to put a mat for a Patient to lie on. And many a time, there are no medications available to treat patients. I don’t think that our Hospital staff are just cruel and wicked not to attend to Patients when they have the resources and medications available. Let us check out how many hours Medical Staff work in a day and you will be shocked. Let the NPP and NDC Governments improve the facilities right from the District Hospitals and employ very qualified Medical Specialists and stop playing politics with everything. How do the Medical Staff treat Patients if there are no adequate medical facilities and qualified Medical Staff.
We have all been to KORLEBU and KATH before and know how the staff are overwhelmed with work.
To those who are lashing that the Staff should be punished, put yourselves in their shoes. Go ahead and give them any sanctions for a fault that they didn’t cause. Ghana has already trained them and there are many countries in the Arab World, other African countries, and the Caribbeans who are prepared to pay them in US Dollars with better working conditions. In the end, it is Ghana which loses. Let the Medical Professionals just use one year to study French and they shall be hot market in Africa and be paid US Dollars.
Admittedly, there are a few Medical Professionals who don’t live up to expectations but do you always blame them? Have some Nurses not worked for about 18 months without being paid? Are they FATHER CHRISTMAS? Don’t they have families to take care of? Let us not jump into any hasty conclusions and make inappropriate and useless recommendations. Let our Governments do what is necessary and appropriate and stop wasting money on our Partisan and Tribal Politics. Pay the workers well and provide the infrastructure and medications and then you can sanction those officials who perform below expectations.
Bazo 6 days ago

Stupid boy

Stupid boy
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 days ago

Hahahaha. Don’t provoke me with your stupid insults. KWASEA. Go to KORLEBU and find out how many hours Hospital workers, especially Medical Doctors and Nurses work in a day. ODWAN. You can’t even reason above your nose an ...
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Hahahaha. Don’t provoke me with your stupid insults. KWASEA. Go to KORLEBU and find out how many hours Hospital workers, especially Medical Doctors and Nurses work in a day. ODWAN. You can’t even reason above your nose and think like a normal Human Being. OFUI. Will you work as a Hospital Nurse for 18 months without pay? I will never do that. People who work have to be paid for the work done. OBODAMFO, do your MPs, Soldiers and Police get paid regularly? Why not the Hospital Nurses? So long as Life Expectancy keeps going higher, Ghana will always need qualified Nurses and Doctors. PRAKO. The Medical Doctors and Nurses are not Father Christmas to work for free. AVUU KOKLO.
POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 6 days ago

Blame the NDC and John Mahama for legalizing Okada. They've become nuisance on our roads. I'm sure the engineer was mistaken for these regular Okada men who do not obey the rules and regulations on our roads

Blame the NDC and John Mahama for legalizing Okada. They've become nuisance on our roads. I'm sure the engineer was mistaken for these regular Okada men who do not obey the rules and regulations on our roads
Ghana boy 6 days ago

Unfortunately those caught are female doctors. Does that ring a bell?
Some of these female doctors are amongst the most snobbish, and arrogant doctors a client would meet at most of our big hospitals.
Dr Yorke , you and y ...
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Unfortunately those caught are female doctors. Does that ring a bell?
Some of these female doctors are amongst the most snobbish, and arrogant doctors a client would meet at most of our big hospitals.
Dr Yorke , you and your fellow consultants are these passing out and supervising doctors who are there for prestige and not for humanity.
One can imagine that some of them would put up their best behaviour when they are doing locum in private facilities during daylight hours. Then they come for night duties at the government facilities already tired and want to sleep. Woe betide you to come at some ungodly hour and you face their wrath just like played out in the case of the engineer.
Dr Yorke if some doctors find the conditions in the public hospital s difficult to cope with, they should resign and move to the private sector and charge realistic fees and if they show poor attitude they would be out of work.
It is high time the doctors concentrate and stop mediocre behaviour of picking up fights with other professional groups for they should remember that there is no more any myth about being a doctor in Ghana.
Nii 6 days ago

The FEMALE DOCTORS are as DANGEROUS as the FEMALE NURSES. They all put up the same Unprofessional and Stupid attitudes in our Hospitals. They should all be SACKED!!!.

The FEMALE DOCTORS are as DANGEROUS as the FEMALE NURSES. They all put up the same Unprofessional and Stupid attitudes in our Hospitals. They should all be SACKED!!!.
Onasis 6 days ago

The whole country has been turned into a blackmail arena and groups are exploiting the situation. Give us what we want or we will embark on strike. Sack Mr.A or Mr.B otherwise we are laying down our tools. Meanwhile they will ...
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The whole country has been turned into a blackmail arena and groups are exploiting the situation. Give us what we want or we will embark on strike. Sack Mr.A or Mr.B otherwise we are laying down our tools. Meanwhile they will be paid despite not going to work. Oh well we will pass the cost to consumers. So always the down trodden suffers. Carrying the excreta and grievances of Health workers, teachers, Organised Labour, Traders, etc. Very unfair. Dog bite dog. Life in the jungle
Poor Africa must think again 6 days ago

Say it again

Say it again

Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 days ago

Just pay the Medical Professionals appropriately and regularly. Make facilities and medications available at the hospitals to take care of emergency situations and then sanction them if they don’t perform well. How do you e ...
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Just pay the Medical Professionals appropriately and regularly. Make facilities and medications available at the hospitals to take care of emergency situations and then sanction them if they don’t perform well. How do you expect Hospital Nurses not to be paid for Eighteen months and expect them to perform creditably. Are the Hospital staff Father Christmas or they are fed on Manna for free as it was done in the Biblical times. How do such Professionals take care of their families and pay their rent. Do our MPs, Government Appointees, Soldiers, Police and Electricity and Water Service Staff not paid monthly? Don’t force us to have a situation where some Medical Staff members will decide to leave Patients behind and go home because they have worked for Eight hours. It will be unfair to blame the Hospital Staff without analyzing the situation that led to such unfortunate developments.
Fools 6 days ago

Fools parading as intellectuals

Fools parading as intellectuals
Joe 6 days ago

Even the innocent God has had his share of the blaming syndrome of NDC, when the fire gute to Akosombo the incompetent John Dramani Mahama, said its an act of God, their lazy brain communicators where quick to blame the engin ...
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Even the innocent God has had his share of the blaming syndrome of NDC, when the fire gute to Akosombo the incompetent John Dramani Mahama, said its an act of God, their lazy brain communicators where quick to blame the engineers and said to engineer was an NPP, meanwhile John appointed him April 2025, Bank of Ghana loses they blame NPP, Cocoa price reduction they blame NPP, stealing the Damang mines they blame NPP, poor academic performance on 2025 BECE they blame NPP, high cost of data, GALAMSEY, chieftains conflicts, many more. Ghanaians should learn next time when voting.
Osei Kwame 6 days ago

@ Joe . You are not making sense. Your IQ is very low. And you are very stupid

@ Joe . You are not making sense. Your IQ is very low. And you are very stupid
Nana 6 days ago

The report said they should have done triage. That at least will stabilise the patient for onward movement to another facility.

What does GMA have to say about their refusal to even look at the young man who was in distres ...
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The report said they should have done triage. That at least will stabilise the patient for onward movement to another facility.

What does GMA have to say about their refusal to even look at the young man who was in distress?

Make we think
Kofi Annan 6 days ago

Don't mind that fool called Mr. what? York. The idiot just wants to retain his position in the Union. That is why he is talking jazz to be hailed by his fellow nurses. Inward looking fool he is

Don't mind that fool called Mr. what? York. The idiot just wants to retain his position in the Union. That is why he is talking jazz to be hailed by his fellow nurses. Inward looking fool he is
Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 days ago

Do you think that the Medical Staff refused to look at the Patient? Do you know how our Medical Staff are overworked and some Nurses have not been paid for about 18 months? Are the Nurses and Doctors Father Christmas to work ...
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Do you think that the Medical Staff refused to look at the Patient? Do you know how our Medical Staff are overworked and some Nurses have not been paid for about 18 months? Are the Nurses and Doctors Father Christmas to work for that long without being paid? Let us stop our NPP and NDC Political nonsense and spend the money for the country in a more sensible way.
Paa Pee 6 days ago

Dr. Yorke you will tell it different if the man was your family member. It is only those you know that have blood in their bodies whiles the strangers are all wood and feel no pain.

Dr. Yorke you will tell it different if the man was your family member. It is only those you know that have blood in their bodies whiles the strangers are all wood and feel no pain.
LPO 6 days ago

There come this stupid GMA again. Always defending their members even when they are wrong. How can a professional body be defending wrong? Is a shame. Mr prez, you must shut up.

There come this stupid GMA again. Always defending their members even when they are wrong. How can a professional body be defending wrong? Is a shame. Mr prez, you must shut up.
Kimbela 6 days ago

And members of GMA should not treat Ghanaians especially patients as animals ie goats

And members of GMA should not treat Ghanaians especially patients as animals ie goats

Hanson K.K 6 days ago

Mr. President, Dr. Ernest Yorke, you haven't said anything, better talk to those lazy doctors and nurses to change their attitude.
The so called challenges, if you can't cooperate with it, better resign.
Ghanaians are j ...
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Mr. President, Dr. Ernest Yorke, you haven't said anything, better talk to those lazy doctors and nurses to change their attitude.
The so called challenges, if you can't cooperate with it, better resign.
Ghanaians are just quiet over the dangerous attitude of some doctors and nurses killing people due to negligence.
The next thing these dangerous doctors and nurses would do to you should you mention their attitude at work, you would leave to regret saying anything
Hanson K.K 6 days ago

Mr. President, Dr. Ernest Yorke, you haven't said anything, better talk to those lazy doctors and nurses to change their attitude.
The so called challenges, if you can't cooperate with it, better resign.
Ghanaians are j ...
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Mr. President, Dr. Ernest Yorke, you haven't said anything, better talk to those lazy doctors and nurses to change their attitude.
The so called challenges, if you can't cooperate with it, better resign.
Ghanaians are just quiet over the dangerous attitude of some doctors and nurses killing people due to negligence.
The next thing these dangerous doctors and nurses would do to you should you mention their attitude at work, you would leave to regret saying anything
Achakanapaya 6 days ago

Foolish talk. Who is to be blamed Mr Doc.
Wicked idiots.

Foolish talk. Who is to be blamed Mr Doc.
Wicked idiots.
Oklemekuku¹ 6 days ago

GMA is the reason some of these arrogant doctors do what they do. They always jump to the doctors' defence.

GMA is the reason some of these arrogant doctors do what they do. They always jump to the doctors' defence.
Kelvin 6 days ago

That's why I always go to private hospital for treatment.

That's why I always go to private hospital for treatment.
Truth 6 days ago

These cartel are always found of covering up. You won't here admonishing their members for wrong doing. All you hear about them is strike for pay increase etc...lives have been lost and you thinking about someone's name if sh ...
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These cartel are always found of covering up. You won't here admonishing their members for wrong doing. All you hear about them is strike for pay increase etc...lives have been lost and you thinking about someone's name if she or he has done the wrong thing. Smh!
Zigs 6 days ago

of morons......Scape cows then ?

of morons......Scape cows then ?
FRANKIE 6 days ago

Use Dem as scapecrocrodie. This people wants to take over every department of the sector so they should be prepared for more problems since they want more positions .

Use Dem as scapecrocrodie. This people wants to take over every department of the sector so they should be prepared for more problems since they want more positions .
K. Kusi 6 days ago

All the problems in the health sector are the creation of the doctors. They have succeeded in taking control over everything including management that they have no clue about. Most of them just rise through the ranks without ...
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All the problems in the health sector are the creation of the doctors. They have succeeded in taking control over everything including management that they have no clue about. Most of them just rise through the ranks without any management training and working experiences to man big health facilities. And because they are the ones in charge, they are unable to call their own to order. They kill and cover up for themselves all the time. This time that a probe had been launched, you see the mess? They have hijacked the system and milking it dry. Most of them use public facilities to select select patients they think can pay and refer them to their private facilities. They have deals with private laboratories, some actually own them and refer lab requests to them for their self gain. Until we get doctors out of the management of our health facilities, nothing will change. Go to any typical mission hospital like those at Agogo, nkawkaw, Duayaw Nkwanta, Agoroyesum, Techiman, etc. where doctors are not the heads and see if these nonsense will happen.

Our doctors have turned themselves into leaches and draculas, sacking the blood of sick people.

I heard the GRNMA president saying they should not have put the names of the doctors and nurses out in the public, nonsense. When it is other public servants and politicians, you are quick to call them out in the public. What is special about you?

We have gotten to a point where individual responsibility must be placed on health staff for negligence instead of always going after the institutions alone. The negligent staff must suffer punitive sanctions just any person suffers for their individual liabilities. When we do that, the staff will fight their internal systems to get the right things done.

There is too much theft in the health system. They steal everything from syringes to equipment for private use and turn around to complain. If anybody steals medical consumables more than doctors and nurses, then you're the devil himself.
Pelicles. 6 days ago

We have been pampering them for far too long and they feel or see themselves as "Above all and Sundry". If you cannot attend to the injured person, do not enter the medical field.

We have been pampering them for far too long and they feel or see themselves as "Above all and Sundry". If you cannot attend to the injured person, do not enter the medical field.

Niba 6 days ago

And how exactly have you been pampering them if I may ask.
Do you pay them or put food on their table.
Some of you will just type nonsense when you have no idea how things work.
I bet you cannot even survive a night duty a ...
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And how exactly have you been pampering them if I may ask.
Do you pay them or put food on their table.
Some of you will just type nonsense when you have no idea how things work.
I bet you cannot even survive a night duty at an emergency ward.
A time will come when doctors will decide to leave this country for you people to start treating yourselves since doctors are your enemies.
What happened to the diseased was very unfortunate and should not have happened, however playing blame games and name mentioning esp publicly is not the right way to go about it.
You people should continue letting the politicians deceive you into blaming doctors and nurses all the time since you do not want things to be fixed.
Antwi 6 days ago

So your negligence should not be mentioned? You run under the cover of scapegoat. It’s high time all professional be held accountable for their professional negligence.

So your negligence should not be mentioned? You run under the cover of scapegoat. It’s high time all professional be held accountable for their professional negligence.
Pelicles. 6 days ago

Here is my question, do your health care professionals go for "In-service training"?

Here is my question, do your health care professionals go for "In-service training"?
Ivory Mensah 6 days ago

Elsewhere, these wicked and dangerous doctors would have been jailed and their licences revoked. Dr yorke is a politician who want to please those who voted for him and still want to be revoted as gma president. And th ...
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Elsewhere, these wicked and dangerous doctors would have been jailed and their licences revoked. Dr yorke is a politician who want to please those who voted for him and still want to be revoted as gma president. And that's how come he's spewing rubbish. Prof Akosa is one of the best doctors in Africa and I pray that he follows the report closely. What is a scapegoat in this case? These doctors and nurses will be terrible wives. They deserve punishment. The medical profession is a calling not for prestige. The gods of the land are watching.
Jkm 5 days ago

Useless and stupid commentary

Useless and stupid commentary
JB 5 days ago

Masa, your colleagues didn't do well so allow us to criticise and condemn them

Masa, your colleagues didn't do well so allow us to criticise and condemn them

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