Official appeals to personnel to accept posting to rural areas

Tema, June 4, GNA - Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, has said government's aim of training more health personnel would be defeated if they are not ready to accept

posting to the remote parts of the country. He said parents should convince their children to accept posting to any part of the country to ensure the

success of the government's dream of ensuring access to health care for all manner of persons. Dr Appiah-Denkyira said this in an address read for him at the second matriculation of the Nyaniba

Health Assistants Training School for 194 Health Assistants in Tema. He said plans were underway to upgrade some Health Assistant Training Schools into Diploma Awarding

Institutions in Midwifery to enable the country to meet the Millennium Development Goals. "It therefore behoves on students to sit up and put your results in a better shape as quickly as possible

in order to avail yourselves of the opportunity to add more value to yourselves." Dr Appiah-Denkyira said the Ministry of Health recognized all levels of care providers, "from the mother

in the home who feeds, bathes and cloths the family, the traditional birth attendant who assists in delivery." Ms Aba Folson, the Chief Executive Officer of the School, said its ultimate mission was to create a Centre

of Excellence for the advancement of health science. Ms Cecilia Matey, Principal of the School, told the students, "You must be bold, fiercely determined to

allow the knowledge you acquire here to empower you to make a difference in your own lives, your families,

your communities, our nation Ghana and beyond.