Nana Okofo Frimpong Anokye santanhene of Asante Asokore Traditional Council in the sekyere East district of the Ashanti Region has urged health professionals in Ghana to accept postings to rural and deprived areas where their services are most needed.
He said the refusal of some healthcare professionals to accept postings to some parts of the country was not helpful to efforts at making quality healthcare services accessible to all Ghanaians.
Nana Okofo Frimpong Anokye said posting health professionals to rural communities is not pushment but rather propels health worker to gain experienced.
He asked nurses and midwives to emulate their forebearers who accepted work in any part of the country even when the national infrastructure was not the best and without the incentive packages being offered presently by the government.
“Nurses refusing postings is particularly distressing. I want to use this platform to encourage all health practitioners to follow the worthy example of your great forebearers who readily accepted postings in their early years when the national infrastructure was even more harrowing than it is.
“Therefore, I am appealing to you as passionately as I can to accept postings to all regions and district hospitals where your services are most needed,” he said.
He made the call when Sekyere East Health Directorate held its end-of-year review performance.
Nana Okofo Frimpong Anokye was impressed by the remarkable performances of Sekyere East Health directorate in the year 2023.
On his part, the Sekyere East District Health Director, Dr Justice Ofori Amoah used the opportunity to appeal to the religious leaders in Ghana to encourage their members to donate blood to save lives.
He said it would be wicked on the part of Christians to see their fellow human beings die due to lack of blood and that, it was the responsibility of everyone to help save a soul through blood donation.
He said there was a need for Ghanaians to donate blood at least every six months or a year and called on organizations, philanthropists, and churches to organize their members to undertake such humanitarian ventures.
