Thursday, September 29, 2011

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SHUT DOWN SCHOOL WITHOUT NOTICE

Teachers, Parents and guardians of Freeman School Complex in the Akyim Oda district in the Eastern Region have expressed their frustration and disappointment after the school administration shut down the school without prior notice.
The school was supposed to have reopened two weeks ago but it did not because the school authorities closed it down.
The teachers and parents tell Adom News Reporter Kwesi Azor it is a breach of contract for the school authorities to shut down the school without notifying them.

Some of the parents say they have purchased stationery worth GHC250 for their children for the new term which never came.

Reports gathered from the school indicate that the owner of the school, Margret Freeman has left the country to the United States.
Efforts to reach to school authorities for their side of the story proved futile.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

DR KENNEDY SLAMS GOVERNEMENT FOR LONG DELAYS FOR DOCTORATE LICENSES

After Adom News exposure that the maternity block of the Tema General hospital has been closed down temporarily due to the absence of medical doctors to mane the department, a lecturer at the University Cape-Coast Medical School, Dr Arthur Kennedy has slammed government and the Ghana Health Service for undermining the return of Ghanaian doctors back home.
Dr. Kennedy says it’s disturbing that several Ghanaian doctors abroad are willing to return home to support the health delivery system; however the Health Service frustrates them with charging unexplained feed and long waiting periods before approval id given.
Citing his personal experience, Dr Arthur Kennedy disclosed that he had to wait for more than three years to get his licenses in Ghana whereas in the U.S it takes just is 2 days to do same.
He disclosed that about 1000 of his colleague doctors have been forced to remain in the US is as a results of the poor working conditions and the frustration in the Health Service.
He is therefore urging authorities to make licenses of doctors from the Diaspora easier to support their colleagues in the country.

He also called on the government to take a look at the conditions of service of doctors in the country in order to motivate doctors to stay rather than travelling to other countries due the worsening conditions of service her.
Dr Arthur Kennedy was speaking to Adom news in reaction to the shortage of doctors at the Tema General Hospitals which has necessitated the temporary shutdown of the Maternity block.

Monday, September 26, 2011

DR KENNEDY SLAM GOVERNMENT ON POOR CONDITIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS

A lecturer at the University Cape-Coast Medical School, Dr Arthur Kennedy has called on the government to take a look at the conditions of service of doctors in the country in order to motivate them to stay rather than travelling abroad for greener pastures.
He stated that about 1000 doctors alone in the US is as a results of the poor working conditions in the country.
Dr Arthur Kennedy made these comments in an interview with Adom news in reaction to the shortage of doctors at the Tema General Hospitals as some of the doctors travelled outside for greener pastures.

Dr Kennedy urge the medical council and the health service to create the right conditions for doctors so that those abroad will join their colleagues at home.
He explains that in Ghana it takes more than 2 years for a doctor to get his licenses whereas in the US is 2 days.
Therefore, Dr Kennedy appealed to the government to help resolve the situation of shortage of doctors in the country.

DOCTORS WANTS MIGRATION TO THE SINGLE SPINE SALARY NOW

The National Executive Council of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has emphasized its stance to stop work if they are not migrated into the single spine salary structure by October 7th.
The doctors urge the fair wages and salary secretariat to fasten up in migrating them to the SSSS.

The President of the Ghana Medical Council, Dr. Emmanuel Adom Winful demanded full payment of Doctors allowance from January 2010 to date.

Dr Adom Winful revealed that the nation’s hardworking Doctors were not enjoying the 20% increment of salaries recently announced by government.

He said they would not change their stance until their demands are met

TEMA GENERAL HOSPITAL MATERNITY WARD TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN

The administrator of the Tema General Hospital, Madam Elizabeth Dogbe says the maternity ward has to be temporarily closed down because of shortage of doctors.
Reports had earlier indicated that several pregnant women who were due for delivery had been directed by the hospital authorities to seek medical attention elsewhere because there were no doctors.
There was a notice posted on the hospital’s walls by the authorities with the new directions to the anxious mothers to be.
According to Madam Dobge who spoke off air, the shortage is because two of the doctors at the Maternity department have travelled outside the country while 2 are on leave without pay.
She stressed that until government takes drastic measures to provide them with enough doctors the maternity ward will remain closed.
Meanwhile some of the anxious and frustrated pregnant women spoke to Adom News


END SAM