{"id":1211552,"date":"2022-09-27T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/mdc-justifies-decision-not-to-recognize-ghanaian-doctors-trained-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:19:19","slug":"mdc-justifies-decision-not-to-recognize-ghanaian-doctors-trained-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/mdc-justifies-decision-not-to-recognize-ghanaian-doctors-trained-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC justifies decision not to recognize Ghanaian doctors trained in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana believes criticisms of its decision not to recognize degree certificates issued by Medical and Dental Schools in Ukraine are unjustified.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, the council\u2019s Registrar, Dr. Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, suggested that his outfit was deserving of praise for being proactive and \u201cacting in our collective interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are set up exactly to do that; to make sure substandard practitioners, do not come and become licensed murderers,\u201d Dr. Banyubala said.<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s decision is because some schools in Ukraine have resorted to studying online following the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>But Ghanaian students studying Medicine and Dentistry in Ukraine have decried the decision by the Ghana Medical and Dental Council not to recognise their certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, an Executive Member of the National Union of Ghana Students in Ukraine, Henry Brook Smith said the move is not in the best interest of Ghanaian students studying in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine is currently running an offline mode. The online is being organised for those who can\u2019t make it to Ukraine due to the invasion. Our concern is that, this decision has been taken without recourse to the effects on parents and students\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vWKu7kuIfTU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two quack doctors arrested for practicing without license | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWKu7kuIfTU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana believes criticisms of its decision not to recognize degree certificates issued by Medical and Dental Schools in Ukraine are unjustified. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the council\u2019s Registrar, Dr. Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, suggested that his outfit was deserving of praise for being proactive and \u201cacting in our collective interest.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211552","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=1211552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}