{"id":1198041,"date":"2022-09-03T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T23:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/03\/what-country-is-this-theyve-completed-school-but-are-still-in-their-houses-iea-director\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T23:41:06","slug":"what-country-is-this-theyve-completed-school-but-are-still-in-their-houses-iea-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/03\/what-country-is-this-theyve-completed-school-but-are-still-in-their-houses-iea-director\/","title":{"rendered":"What Country Is This? They&#8217;ve Completed School But Are Still In Their Houses\u2013 IEA Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Dr. John Kwakye, the director of research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has called the discovery that 1,000 recently qualified doctors are unemployed ridiculous. \u201cThis is insane? I hear newly-qualified teachers also have to pay bribes of up to GHc7,000 to be recruited. What country is this? Wherein lie our priorities?\u201d Tweeted him.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks follow those of Dr. Sandaare Sebastian, the member of parliament for Dafiama\/Bussie\/Issa, who raised concern over the government&#8217;s failure to hire more than 1,000 new doctors who completed their housemanship almost a year ago but have since remained at home.<\/p>\n<p> Ghanaian government does not take steps to hire the doctors, Dr. Sandaare warned that they would be forced to leave the country&#8217;s borders in pursuit of greener pastures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5d687581b141460694c52f63c1f55252\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His remarks follow those of Dr. Sandaare Sebastian, the member of parliament for Dafiama\/Bussie\/Issa, who raised concern over the government&#8217;s failure to hire more than 1,000 new doctors who completed their housemanship almost a year ago but have since remained at home.<\/p>\n<p> Ghanaian government does not take steps to hire the doctors, Dr. Sandaare warned that they would be forced to leave the country&#8217;s borders in pursuit of greener pastures. He declared that this is an unacceptable situation.<\/p>\n<p>The member of the Health Committee of Parliament told journalists in Accra on Thursday, September 1, &#8220;They finish school and they are in the houses, so it is just to draw attention to government that it is not acceptable that as a country, we say that we cannot employ our doctors who have come out of training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Medical and Dental Council has completed a three-day program to examine 50 years of medical training in this country, the speaker continued. Even after 50 years of the Medical and Dental Council, there are still unemployed doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Link: https:\/\/3news.com\/over-1000-doctors-without-jobs-this-is-insane-ieas-kwakye\/<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: barbaraagyeman006 (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\">\nDafiama<br \/>\nIEA<br \/>\nInstitute of Economic Affairs<br \/>\nJohn Kwakye<br \/>\nSandaare Sebastian<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Kwakye, the director of research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has called the discovery that 1,000 recently qualified doctors are unemployed ridiculous. \u201cThis is insane? I hear newly-qualified teachers also have to pay bribes of up to GHc7,000 to be recruited. What country is this? Wherein lie our priorities?\u201d Tweeted him. 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