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The Ghana Medical Association has expressed worry about the state of the country’s medical facilities and Health Centers.

According to them, the government should expedite investigations into contracts that have been abandoned and those that are being reviewed by the government.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' program, President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea, explained that they have the human resources and personnel to occupy the health centers to provide quality health care for Ghanaians.

"The brain drain is currently worrying and that we expect the government to act to save the situation," he said.

"People who have been trained with the taxpayers' money are leaving to other countries to practice because of the lack of facilities in the country."

He also appealed to the government to abolish the financial clearance system to enable the government to employ more doctors.

Currently, the doctor to patient ratio is 1 to 20,000

Watch the interview below



The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has however reiterated that the ten polyclinics that were being constructed by former President Mahama’s administration in the Central region have all been completed and commissioned by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo led government.

He said that the various polyclinics in Potsin, Bimpong Egya, Etsii Sunkwa, Ekumfi Naakwa, Dawurampong, Mampong, Biriwa, and Bisease were commissioned in August 2018.

“They were commissioned as at August 2018. I went there physically to commission the facilities after completion. When we came, they were at the very early stages of construction, and all of them, I signed not less than 32 certificates for them to assess funds to continue work,” the Health Minister emphasized.

The Minister added that the Nana Addo led government inherited these projects at very early stages of construction and he had to sign 32 certificates on each of them before the completion of the projects.

Meanwhile, Mr. Agyeman-Manu insisted that upon commissioning of the projects, the former deputy Minister for Finance, Ato Forson accused him of taking credit for the project started by the erstwhile Mahama administration.