Five doctors, seven housemen ready to work in Upper East

Bolgatanga, (UE), May 13, GNA - Seven doctors have accepted to work in the Upper East region after completion of their housemanship in the area and five qualified ones have applied to work there. Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, the Regional Director of Health Service, who announced this at a reception, organised for the housemen in at Bolgatanga, said that this would help mitigate the problem of the low patient-doctor ratio of 1:43,000 in the region.

He said that even though the Government of Cuba had over the years sent doctors to the region, the doctor-patient ratio kept on widening partly due to population explosion.

Dr. Awoonor-Williams said that the construction of four bungalows for doctors in the region had started. The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Woyongo, commended the housemen and qualified doctors for accepting to practice in the region. He said district hospitals would be built in the region to improve health delivery and indicated that five medical students, who were being sponsored, would work in the region after completing their training.