Professor Richard M. K. Adanu, Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, has suggested that the nation think about offering consultant jobs at the regional hospitals for retired senior medical professionals to supply their skills on a contract basis.
He said that his approach may serve as a stopgap solution to get practising doctors the specialised training they need to hone their abilities and expertise in their various fields and enhance healthcare delivery across a large geographic area.
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If we hired these retired specialists as consultants, he claimed, "their presence alone at the hospitals would improve health care not just there, but throughout an entire geographic area, and they would serve as major trainers for postgraduate programmes."
At the opening public lecture for the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons' 20th anniversary, which had as its topic "Two decades of postgraduate medical training in Ghana," Prof. Adanu made this statement last Thursday in Accra.
His speech outlined the college's founding history, success stories, current issues facing specialised medical education in Ghana, as well as possible remedies.
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Additionally, he pushed for the construction of two modern facilities with the same capacity as the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in each of the nation's 16 districts.
He said that each region needed to have strong infrastructure, including roads, schools, entertainment centres, and a range of stores. , according to him, may persuade medical trainers to accept posts in the regions and offer the training required for doctors to become senior experts.
"More doctors will stay outside the two big regions and offer valuable specialist services after their training," he stated, "if we successfully decentralise the training of members and fellows and succeed in this stopgap measure."
Prof. Adanu's talk took a political turn when he suggested that Agenda 111, the government's goal to establish modern hospitals across the nation, be accepted as a national strategy rather than the project of a particular political party.
"The college has members and fellows who are affiliated with the two major political parties in the nation.
In order to ensure that the political support for postgraduate medical training is unaffected by election outcomes, these members and fellows must ensure that the things we need for specialist training, such as well-equipped hospitals, are written in the same words in each party's manifesto.
Without political and governmental assistance, we won't be able to handle our problems, thus they must support the physicians, no matter which side they support, he stated.
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