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Dr Alexis Nang-beifubah, Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, has appealed to doctors and nurses who hail from the region to come back home to help save lives. He said the Upper West Region was blessed with the human resource especially in the health sector yet it had been neglected by many including those from the region while their people died from preventable diseases due to lack of adequate and critical medical staff. He explained that it was sad to note that only three general doctors out of the numerous doctors from the region were currently staying and serving in the region. Dr Nang-beifubah made the appeal at a send-off party for Dr Jacob Abebrese, the Medical Director at the Upper West Regional Hospital, who was on transfer to the Brong Ahafo Region. He warned that if their own sons and daughters living outside the region would not come home to serve, they should desist from the practice of using the region as an experiment grounds where they could just walk in anytime with their colleague white doctors unannounced to carry out their experiments. The Regional Director commended Dr Abebrese for his selfless dedication and commitment towards ensuring quality health delivery at the Regional Hospital during his tenure as the Medical Director. He mentioned the tarring of roads within the premises of the hospital, the expansion of the casualty ward, renovation of other old structures and the improvement in the overall performance of other staff members as some of the achievements of the out-going doctor. Dr Nang-beifubah called on the other staff to use the occasion to rededicate themselves to the ethics of the profession to enable them render better services to their clients. Mr Mahmud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister, commended the doctor for his hard work and commitment to duty that had helped to improve in quality health delivery and urged others to emulate him. He also urged all health workers to handle their patients with humility to prepare them psychologically to be able to recover quickly from their sicknesses. He further advised them to hold on to the ethics of the profession and force the few bad ones among them to fall in line in order not to bring the image of the profession into disrepute. Dr Abebrese thanked the staff for cooperating with him and added that but for their cooperation he could not have made all those achievements alone. He promised to make himself available to them whenever they were seriously in need of his services and urged them to continue to work hard to improve on health services in the Municipality and the region at large. Some hard working staff including retirees were awarded for their outstanding contributions towards quality health delivery at the hospital.