Government is currently reviewing the process of recruiting medical doctors in the country to address the shortfalls in the public service.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Health Minister, Alex Percival Segbefia, said, adding that the exercise is to shorten the period of registering the medical doctors after their housemanship training to enable them get paid on time.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”fVVWqJYlwOpkkoDR5LNFl1XMvkxBQ4Bh”]\u201cIt is also ensure that they are properly registered biometrically, \u201cMr Segbefia told Parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Answering questions related to his Ministry, Mr Segbefia said Government has always had the challenge of registering and employing medical doctors after their housemanships<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of the situation where people are allowed to go to work and had to be funded by their own means \u2013 means of sustenance between three to five months, what is happening now is that, we have the registration in place first before we employ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe acknowledge the gap is too large and efforts are being made by the Ministry of Finance and Controller and Accountant General to ensure that the gap is shortened,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Mr Segbefia\u2019s answer was in response to a question posed by the Member of Parliament for Effiduase\/Asokore, Frank Boakye Agyen, seeking to know the placement and status of all the newly trained Ghanaian medical doctors.<\/p>\n
According to the Minister 486 medical doctors made up of Dental and Medical Officers from all Medical Schools in Ghana and abroad have since September, 2014, been posted to all the teaching hospitals and some regional hospitals for a year\u2019s housemanship in compliance with the Medical and Dental Council\u2019s requirement.<\/p>\n
Of the number, 218 were posted in September, 2014 while the remaining 268 trained medical doctors were posted from May-June 2.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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