{"id":479729,"date":"2011-08-31T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/08\/31\/health-minister-should-rather-be-sacked-allotey-jacobs\/"},"modified":"2011-08-31T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:08:45","slug":"health-minister-should-rather-be-sacked-allotey-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/08\/31\/health-minister-should-rather-be-sacked-allotey-jacobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Should Rather Be Sacked &#8211; Allotey Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width=\"230\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"1\"\ncellspacing=\"1\"><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&Acirc;&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&Acirc;&nbsp;<span>Central Regional Communications Director of the<br \/>\ngoverning National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey<br \/>\nJacobs, has posited that President John Evans Atta Mills should<br \/>\nrather relieve Joseph Yieleh Chiereh off his duties as Health<br \/>\nMinister rather than Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, one-time<br \/>\nHonorary Director-In-Charge of the National Cardiothoracic Centre<br \/>\n(NCTC).Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng was sacked as per a letter<br \/>\nsigned by the sector minister, Yieleh Chireh on Thursday, August<br \/>\n25th, and copied to the President, Prof J.E.A. Mills, the Chief of<br \/>\nStaff, John Henry Martey Newman and the Deputy Minister of Health,<br \/>\nRojo Mettle Nunoo. His dismissal took immediate effect.A copy of<br \/>\nthe letter terminating the appointment of the renowned surgeon and<br \/>\nsighted by <b>peacefmonline.com<\/b> reads; &Acirc;&ldquo;In view of<br \/>\nyour transfer from the Ministry Of Health (MOH) to University of<br \/>\nGhana Medical School (UGMS) your appointment as honorary director<br \/>\nin charge of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC) has been<br \/>\nterminated with immediate effect. We take this opportunity to thank<br \/>\nyou for your service rendered to the NCTC and wish you<br \/>\nwell&Acirc;&rdquo;. But aghast at the decision, Doctors at the<br \/>\nKorle Bu Cardiothoracic Centre have laid down their tools demanding<br \/>\nthe re-instatement of Prof. Frimpong Boateng. They have also<br \/>\nsubmitted a five page petition to the government giving reasons why<br \/>\nthe renowned heart surgeon should not be treated in such a cavalier<br \/>\nmanner after his invaluable services to the nation.Obviously<br \/>\ndisgruntled with the decision to do away with the services of the<br \/>\nrenowned surgeon, Allotey Jacobs, speaking as a panelist on<br \/>\n<b>Peace FM<\/b>&Acirc;&rsquo;s flagship programme<br \/>\n&Acirc;&lsquo;<b>Kokrokoo<\/b>&Acirc;&rsquo;, demanded that the<br \/>\nHealth Minister should explain to Ghanaians what his motivations<br \/>\nwere to take such an action, adding that he does not understand why<br \/>\nthe lives of innocent patients should be toyed with at the expense<br \/>\nof politics.<\/span>&Acirc;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"10%\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"2\"\ncellspacing=\"2\"><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><span>Central Regional Communications Director<br \/>\nof the governing NDC, Bernard Allotey Jacobs<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span>&Acirc;&ldquo;Ghanaians should learn sometimes how to be<br \/>\nbi-partisan when it comes to the national interest and on national<br \/>\nissues&Acirc;&hellip;for us to grow Ghana when it comes to national<br \/>\ninterest and I think for Frimpong Boateng to go, the minister<br \/>\nshould rather go&Acirc;&hellip;am telling you. You see, government<br \/>\nis faced with some form of embarrassment,<br \/>\nespecially&Acirc;&hellip;with STX, and when people are bombarding<br \/>\nus from left to right, then you come and add more petrol or<br \/>\nkerosene to the fire, do you think it augurs well?&Acirc;&hellip;we<br \/>\nwon&Acirc;&rsquo;t defend because there are some issues which are<br \/>\nindefensible and we will talk about&Acirc;&hellip;for the sake of<br \/>\nthe party, people should know that there are independent minded<br \/>\npeople in the party and we will speak our mind so far as the<br \/>\nconstitution allows us&Acirc;&hellip;,&Acirc;&rdquo; he<br \/>\nsaid.Meanwhile, President Mills, on Monday, August 29th, convened a<br \/>\nmeeting to receive a full brief on the situation and also to<br \/>\nconsider a petition sent to his office by doctors and staff of the<br \/>\nCardiothoracic<br \/>\nCentre.<\/span>&Acirc;&nbsp;&Acirc;&nbsp;<span><span>Source: Rebecca<br \/>\nQuaye\/Peacefmonline.com<\/span><\/span>&Acirc;&nbsp;&Acirc;&nbsp;&Acirc;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &Acirc;&nbsp; &Acirc;&nbsp; Central Regional Communications Director of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has posited that President John Evans Atta Mills should rather relieve Joseph Yieleh Chiereh off his duties as Health Minister rather than Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, one-time Honorary Director-In-Charge of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC).Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng was sacked as per a letter signed by the sector minister, Yieleh Chireh on Thursday, August 25th, and copied to the President, Prof J.E.A. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Health Minister Should Rather Be Sacked - Allotey Jacobs - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/08\/31\/health-minister-should-rather-be-sacked-allotey-jacobs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Health Minister Should Rather Be Sacked - Allotey Jacobs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&Acirc;&nbsp; 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