According to Prof. Richard Adanu, rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, a lack of medical professionals proportionate to the country's population is impacting the quality of health care provided.
In his opinion, the few medical professionals in the system were exclusively focused on a few locations, to the disadvantage of the rest of the nation, particularly rural areas.
Additionally, he claimed that few medical professionals chose to specialize in radiotherapy, medical laboratories, or other fields, instead choosing areas like surgery, obstetrics, and gynecology.
The rector said, "But we need many individuals to specialize so that we can address the people's health requirements.
During a press soiree held by the college as part of activities marking its 20th anniversary celebrations in Accra, Prof. Adanu was responding to inquiries from journalists regarding the difficulties of specialist training for medical doctors.
Collaboration
The institution, according to the rector, is collaborating with appropriate parties to develop programs that would give doctors a quicker path to specializing in fields that some of them, he alleged, were avoiding.
The measures include assisting physicians in starting the course as soon as their housekeeping training is complete.
He said that the quality of the equipment in the nation's public hospitals was hindering the development of experts.
According to Prof. Adanu, "in a specialty like radiology, residents sometimes have to do rotation in the MRI or CT scan room, and occasionally the MRI machine might not work throughout the period of attachment of resident doctors."
Therefore, he claimed, the college was working with semi-private organizations like the National Maritime Hospital and the Bank Hospital to use their cutting-edge facilities to train doctors in a few specialized fields.
Dr. John Nkrumah-Mills, the college's immediate past president, claimed that the college's founding in 2003 through a Parliamentary Act was opportune since it helped to stop the country's loss of medical talent.
He said that the institution had so far produced 1,690 specialty doctors and 200 Fellows, citing postgraduate medical education as one of the primary causes of doctors leaving the nation.
He remarked, "I think we ought to celebrate these wonderful accomplishments."
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