The Bono Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is worried about what it calls failure on the part of medical doctors to accept posting to the region. 

Regional Director, Dr. Kofi Amo Kodieh, said out of 32 doctors posted to the region, only 9 showed up for work. 

Speaking in an interview with the media at Nsuatre in the Sunyani West municipality of the region Friday March 31, Dr. Kofi Amo Kodieh said the situation is getting dire appealing to stakeholders to ensure that incentives are put together to attract medical officers to the region.

“32 doctors were posted to this region, unfortunately, only 9 of them reported because Bono is not deemed to be one of the affluent regions to attract doctors. We would like to urge our stakeholders to as a matter of urgency put together incentives that will attract medical doctors to this region,” Bono Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service said. 

He added that there are overstaffed nurses in the Sunyani West and East municipalities because all the nurses are not willing to accept postings to the rural areas where their services are need most.

“There are about seven facilities in the Tain district yet there are not enough nurses to work there because of unequal distribution of nurses. Politicians, chiefs and other people of high dignity would come to my office and be begging that their relatives are transferred to the cities”, he added.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Akua Nyarko