The Member of Parliament (MP) for Garu Constituency, Dr Thomas Winsum Anaba
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Garu Constituency, Dr Thomas Winsum Anaba, has called for a systematic approach in addressing the lapses facing the Ghanaian healthcare system.
He said requisite resourcing, specialists training, among others, must be prioritised to ensure health professionals are in the right position to provide the need for particular health conditions that patients seek outside the country.
Dr Anaba said that will help set a blueprint to curtail the rate at which public figures access healthcare in foreign countries, to help build the confidence of the populace in the system to encourage medical tourism.
“Ensuring the local health facilities are well resourced, training specialist to take care of diseases that take people out of the country to manage them here will help build a robust health system in the country,” he said.
Commenting on Ghana’s health systems on Good Morning Ghana, he advised health officers to take their relaxation seriously, as they get involved with so many things that stress and affect their immune systems.
Dr Anaba added that President John Dramani Mahama has the vision of converting the Ridge Hospital into a teaching hospital to help address and train more professionals to cater for some issues that cause people to fly out to seek medical care.
He disagreed on calls by Ghanaians for a policy to ban public officers from seeking care outside the country, adding that ethically and legally, it is not right to do such thing.
He, however, advised Ghanaians to set timelines and deadlines from every government to reduce the number of public officers who seek care during every four years.
The MP for Garu also called on the public to support the visions of John Mahama on transforming the country, to collectively push the agenda for development.
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