{"id":1170475,"date":"2022-08-08T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/bono-east-doctor-to-patient-ratio-too-low-situation-worrying\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:03:06","slug":"bono-east-doctor-to-patient-ratio-too-low-situation-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/bono-east-doctor-to-patient-ratio-too-low-situation-worrying\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono East: Doctor To Patient Ratio Too Low; Situation Worrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/d1e2f4e031e84dda9976f9ff0e34ec0a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bono East Regional Health Directorate has expressed worry at the low doctor-to-patient ratio in the region, indicating that it has a dire consequences on the health of the people in the Bono East region.<\/p>\n<p>According to the directorate, the current 1:20,000 patient-doctor ratio is low as compared to the WHO&#8217;s standard of 1:7,500. This means a lot of people may not get doctors to attend to them when they are ill.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng, the Regional Health Director who spoke on Link Agoo AM show with Omanpayin Kwame Atoapim on Monday revealed that, the Kwame Danso Hospital had for a very long had only one medical doctor but currently has three doctors stationed there. Additionally Atebubu Hospital has also seen 3 doctors stationed there to running the facility.<\/p>\n<p>He said though there are challenges confronting the service in the region, efforts were being made to attract more health personell into the region.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Newsflash (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bono East Regional Health Directorate has expressed worry at the low doctor-to-patient ratio in the region, indicating that it has a dire consequences on the health of the people in the Bono East region. According to the directorate, the current 1:20,000 patient-doctor ratio is low as compared to the WHO&#8217;s standard of 1:7,500. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2111,8302,3053,377,1985,2548,3108],"class_list":["post-1170475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bono","tag-doctor","tag-east","tag-patient","tag-ratio","tag-situation","tag-worrying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}