The Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi has made a passionate call on health practitioners posted to the Upper East Region to accept posting to the region.
Dr. Dzotsi made the call after revealing that five doctors posted to the Upper East Region sometime last year have consistently refused to relocate to the region to work. He said all attempts to get them to report to work have proved futile.
“It’s a major problem, for example, just last year in November five doctors were posted to the region. As I speak now, none of them has shown up and several calls to them have not yielded any results. Those that we have already working here, most of them are requesting for transfer out of the region,” he said.
He said some of the doctors who refused to accept posting to the region have been influenced by the decisions of other doctors who are originally from the Upper East Region and have refused to return to their birth regions to work.
“We have our indigenous doctors who come from this region; when other doctors see that their people are not coming here, they [other Doctors] say why should I come?” he quizzed.
He said this on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East when he was responding to earlier comments made by the Upper East Regional Mental Health Focal Person, Edem Quarshie Ameglah. Mr Ameglah was not pleased that continually, health professionals had refused postings to the region.
Mr. Dzortsi said the days where accommodation and other related issues were disincentives to prospective workers have greatly been dealt with.
He said “we are calling on every person, we have indigenous people like doctors, nurses, midwives. We are calling on them to return home and serve their people because we are having it very difficult to get people to work in our hospital. The region is a calm place. I have been here one year already with no problems. So that impression of the fact that when you come to the region you will not be taken care of is a thing of the past”.
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