The Minority in Parliament is preventing off the government’s plan to recruit and deploy senior high college graduates to CHPS compounds throughout the country.
According to the NDC MPs, the circulate will not acquire the desired effect.
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) which seeks to put into effect the project stated the SHS graduates will help with fundamental health care delivery, together with recording the clinical records of patients at CHPS compounds placed in rural communities.
On Thursday, a member of the Health Committee, Dr. Sebastian Sandare, stated the graduates do not have the specified abilities.
“They don’t have any area and that they have no room. These are people that have not completed their education. The awareness have to be that how can we insure that Senior High School graduates have the opportunity to maintain their education.
“If we educate them just maybe a few few weeks, with days of training and say they have to visit CHPS zones, they don't have any role. Even the little they learn, at a point, will depart and go to college.”
According to him, there are professionals who can be recruited to health facilities.
“You have the needed manpower, human beings with the talents who're instead staying home losing their talents. The nurses we have educated for years, who're staying at home are decaying. And they had been educated. They have used years to train them.”
“They wouldn’t make any effect on the CHPS compounds level. And they could bring some awful behaviors. Many are nevertheless young adults, so why might you be exposing teenagers to all of the dangers and risks on the CHPS compound?”
Dr. Sandare has additionally been taking on the defense of the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye for the programme.
“I listened to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, and I generally tend to defend this terrible policy pronouncing that the trouble of CHPS services on the community level is linkage with the community.
Linkage with the community, if even it’s a trouble, then we would have to examine why it’s a trouble,” he advised.”
He in addition stated that there are volunteers who hyperlink the service delivery to the people.
“Chief Health Officer has community-based volunteers and their function is to link the network with the service delivery. Because the CHO won't come from the community, or know the community dynamics. So the community have volunteers, selected through the network themselves… those volunteers had been operating for years, volunteering, which means they are sacrificing.”
The health professional cautioned that the hassle is a lack of incentives for the volunteers.
“So the hassle I suppose the Director General is feeling to speak about is that those community-based volunteers on the CHPS area stages have not been encouraged for years. They don’t have the needed logistics to work with. No bicycle, cellular phones, no motorbikes for CHOs, no fuel.”
“These are the issues and therefore, if there's any intervention, then see how you may inspire the already existing community-based volunteers to work”, he charged.
However, the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association defined the circulate as annoying and opposed the idea.
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