By Dominic Andonye, GNA
Wa Jan. 8, GNA – Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, the
Upper West Regional Minister, has said that Metropolitan, Municipal and
District Assemblies (MMDAs) will give incentives to medical doctors who accept
postings to hospitals in the region.
Dr Salih announced this on Wednesday during
a meeting with Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, the Acting Director General of the
Ghana Health Service, in Wa.
The meeting was for the Minister to submit a
report on the circumstances that led to the death of a two-year old boy at the
Wa regional hospital.
He appealed to the Acting Director General
to help maintain the old hospital, which will now be used as the Wa Municipal
Hospital to provide quality and better health services to the people.
Dr Salih said the people of the Upper West
Region were peace loving and do not discriminate against others based on
tribal, political or religious lines and due to that the recommendations in the
report will be implemented after the director general and the Health Minister
added their inputs.
He pledged that the new regional hospital
would be put to good use to the benefit of the people of the region and beyond.
“On behalf of the RCC and the people of this
region I want to promise you that if the new hospital is opened for operation
it will be maintained for us to realize the full benefits of it” he said.
“Even because of that I have met with the
various MMDAs and MMDCEs to see how we can design an incentive package for
medical doctors who accept postings to hospitals in the Upper West Region”
Dr Aboagye said the New Upper West Regional
Hospital that was commissioned in August 2019 is to be opened to the public for
clinical services on January 9, 2020.
He said plans are far advanced to convert
the old regional hospital to a psychiatric institution to serve the purposes of
both a municipal hospital and a psychiatric hospital.
?On Saturday, November 9, 2019, a
two-year-old boy from Boli in the Upper West Region sustained a snake bite and
was rushed to the emergency unit of the Upper West Regional Hospital.
The victim was allegedly denied medical
treatment due to the closure of the folder room at the time he got to the
facility and led to his untimely death, which necessitated the setting up of a
committee to investigate the incident.
GNA
