Professor of Pathology at the University of Ghana Medical School and former Director General of the Ministry of Health, Agyemang Badu Akosa has revealed that given a second chance he will never opt to work in the field of medicine.
Professor Akosa says he has regretted choosing the profession as it has deprived him of so many things he would have achieved if he had opted for another profession.
He stressed that one will never find happiness after one retires from the medical profession considering the difficulties one has gone through in that career path.
Speaking on Dwaso Nsem on Adom FM on Monday, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa told host Adakabre Frimpong Manso that his regret is so strong that he even advised his son not to follow in his footsteps but he unfortunately did not listen and is now in his final year of medical school adding that he is sure his son will make the same statements he is making some day.
The former candidate for the Presidential slot of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) said health professionals are facing a lot of difficulties in the country citing their woeful salaries, poor working conditions as examples and accused governments of not doing their best to provide enough logistics for them.
“I’m telling you today that these jobs are poison chances… If you are handed the job you have already failed because there are no logistics for you to start working with.
“I regret saying it but I tell you that is what happens in those jobs, you’ve got to sit in there and come up with creative ideas for your survival,” he disclosed.
Prof. Akosa also urged government and Policy makers to rehabilitate old hospitals to meet current trends rather than building new hospitals which lack modern facilities.
According to him, if the old hospitals are refurbished and upgraded it can serve a meaningful purpose for the country.
Story: Samuel Mantey/Adom News
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