I Didn�t Refuse Postings To Upper West Regional Hopsital In 2006- Medical Director

The Newly Appointed medical director for the Upper West Regional Hospital Dr. Banabas Gandao says it is untrue that he refused postings to the Upper West Regional hospital in 2006.

According to him, he was never posted to the regional hospital on the said date, since after the completion of his medical studies in Cuba in 2004, he was posted to serve at the Tamale Teaching Hospital as a gynaecologist.

Dr. Gandao who is a senior gynaecologist at the Tamale teaching hospital and a clinical coordinator for the UDS medical school Speaking Exclusively to Gabriel Mwini of Radio Progress on Tuesday disclosed that, he chose to serve in the teaching hospital in the north because, he wanted to help teach more medical students at the University for Development Studies medical school who will serve in the three regions in the north after their studies in order to reduce the patients doctor ratio in the three regions in northern Ghana.

According to Dr. Gadao, some of the students he taught medicine at the UDS medical school are now serving in the Upper West Region, and wonders why some people are saying he is not committed to serve in the region.

outlining his contribution to the Upper West Region, Dr Gandao revealed that, he regularly came to the Upper West Region to serve the region through his medical outreach programme on fistula.

According him, through his medical organisation he founded on Fistula, hundreds of women in the Upper West Region suffering from fistula were operated and their defects corrected.

Dr. Gandao, also disclosed, he personally conducted operations on pregnant women at the theatres of the Upper West Region during some of his outreach medical programmes.

The newly appointed medical doctor of the Upper West Regional Hospital appealed to a cross section of nurses at the Upper West Regional who protested on his appointed as the medical director to calm down, since none of knows him very well.

Dr. Gandao promised to turn the fortune of the Upper West Regional Hospital when he resumes work as it new medical director.

According to him, the shortage of essential medical staff and some essential medical equipments at the hospital will be his topmost priority when he resumes work.