Improve attitudes towards patients – Vanotoo

Health workers in the country have been urged to exhibit their best professional conduct as they discharge their duties towards patients.

The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Mrs Linda Vanotoo, who made the call, said the quality of care patients receive at health facilities goes a long way to determine hospital attendance by such persons in the future.

The medical officer gave the advice during the inauguration of the Green Health Centre at Baatsona in Accra, on Saturday, April 24, 2016.

She said the negative attitudes of some health personnel sometimes left a sour taste in the mouths of patients who would rather self-medicate, however, dangerous the practice may seem, than report their conditions at a hospital and go through another unpleasant ordeal.

Dr Mrs Vanotoo said there was the need for such health workers to be professional in their duties and show the highest ethical standards to ensure sick persons do not feel restrained accessing health care.

Also present at the event was the Baatsonaa Mantse, Nii Borketey Asrade I. The traditional ruler was happy that the Green Health Centre had been established on his land, saying it would offer many newly trained nurses who remain without posting the opportunity of employment at the health facility and improve general living conditions in the area.

He was positive the centre would offer fast track medical services, and urged affluent persons to endeavour to create more businesses to ease the unemployment situation in the country.