{"id":1217676,"date":"2022-10-06T20:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/lab-professionals-unhappy-with-decision-to-place-them-under-public-private-partnership\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:32:25","slug":"lab-professionals-unhappy-with-decision-to-place-them-under-public-private-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/lab-professionals-unhappy-with-decision-to-place-them-under-public-private-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab professionals unhappy with decision to place them under public private partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Medical Laboratory Professional Workers\u2019 Union <strong>(MELPWU)<\/strong> of Ghana has called on the government to suspend a decision to place the services of the medical laboratory profession under public-private-partnership (PPP).<\/p>\n<p>The Union says it is the known that government has begun processes to place the services of Medical laboratory professionals under public-private partnership.<\/p>\n<p>According to the union, the arrangement which is new has no service provider within the health sector currently under it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual general meeting of the union in the Ashanti Region, the General Secretary of the Medical Laboratory Scientists, Cephas Kofi Akortor, called on the government and the Ministry of Health to \u201cput the decision on hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group wants government to \u201cengage in a broader stakeholder consultation in order to ensure it is in the interest of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"aXYk5xVlMQo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manufacturing vaccines in Ghana: Food and Drugs Authority to begin training staff to man laboratory\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXYk5xVlMQo?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 Laboratory Professional Workers\u2019 Union (MELPWU) of Ghana has called on the government to suspend a decision to place the services of the medical laboratory profession under public-private-partnership (PPP). The Union says it is the known that government has begun processes to place the services of Medical laboratory professionals under public-private partnership. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217676","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\/1217676","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=1217676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}