Don’t go away Ghana; keep and assist your folks – Gov’t ‘begs’ nurses

The Authorities of Ghana has appealed to nurses and different well being professionals to not go away Ghana to different international locations to hunt greener pastures.

Presidential Advisor on Well being, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare has informed the nurses that Ghanaians are trying as much as them to satisfy their well being wants within the nation therefore they need to keep.

His feedback come at a time the Basic Secretary of the Ghana Medical Affiliation (GMA), Dr Titus Beyuo earlier revealed that medical docs and nurses are leaving the nation in droves.

Dr Beyuo stated mind drain has returned to the medical occupation in Ghana.

Talking on the New Day present on TV3 Wednesday Could 11, Dr Beyuo stated “…as we communicate, docs, nurses are leaving this nation in droves, mind drain has returned in full swing.

“I do know that as a result of I’m the Basic Secretary of the GMA, I wont offer you figures instantly,” he stated when requested by host Roland Walker to say what number of have to this point left the nation.

He added “However I can provide you some examples, I offers you a unit in a single hospital I gained’t identify, an enormous hospital in Accra, from January until now, 5 docs have left that unit

“We have to do one thing about it deliberate on this nation.”

Addressing nurses and different well being professionals through the Worldwide Nurses Day, in Accra on Thursday Could 12, Dr Nsia Asare stated “I believe the unethical manner that the developed international locations are attempting to take our scarce well being assets of this nation shouldn’t be the fitting factor to do. Ghana, like different growing international locations, is seeing a rise in migration of our skilled nurses to excessive earnings international locations like United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and different international locations because of the worldwide scarcity of nurses, triggered partly by the influence of the coronavirus.

“This development is sort of worrying and it quantities to huge public subsidy to the wealthier nations, so we’re subsidizing their well being care system, given the truth that nursing schooling in Ghana is is especially publicly financed , it additionally threatens to worsen the nurse-patient ratio and for that matter our capability to speed up our progress in the direction of common well being protection which is a high precedence of this authorities .

“I do know a lot of our skilled nurses proceed to yearn for greener pastures past the shores of Ghana. I want to take this chance to encourage all of you to remain like us and to contained to the event of our nation well being sector. Keep in mind that Ghanaians are trying as much as you of their quest to take care of their well being.”

Supply: 3news