Doctors Oppose New Measures
Wednesday September 30, 2009
By Kingsley E. Hope, Kumasi
New administrative measures introduced to check the Medical and Dental practice have attracted wild criticisms from the practitioners of the profession, says the chairman of the council, Dr. K. O. Adadey.
This followed increasing reports of malpractices and cases of infamous acts appearing before both penal and disciplinary committees of the council.
The new measure was designed to be piloted for two years, 2008 for 2009 and 2009 for 2010, but according to Dr. Adadey, the implementation has attracted criticism, which he described as unfortunate.
Speaking at the 16th oath swearing and induction of medical doctors of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Adadey said the council was not perturbed and will strive to do the best and help those who had descended into the gutter to climb up.
He said recertification will help the doctors to provide improved quality health care to the people.
He pointed out that in certain jurisdictions, medical students were even registered by the respective regulatory bodies to ensure that they were closely monitored and any deviant behaviour or attitude that could endanger their practice in the future was detected earlier and corrective measures applied.
Dr. Adadey said it was imperative that medical schools in the country take a cue from that and put in place some measures to identify those characters early enough for correction.
Ninety-eight new doctors were ushered into the medical profession at the ceremony held on Saturday at the KNUST Great Hall.
The Provost of the College of Health Sciences, Prof. Peter Donkor noted that globalisation had brought in its wake new health challenges and urged the doctors to be broad-minded.
“You will need to constantly update yourself on the knowledge that you have acquired in order to remain relevant to your patients,” he indicated.
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good i have always wondered when this would be introduced. There is so much negligence going on in these so called private clinics and when the patient is almost dead ,they are usually transfered to a general hospital to die. Most won\'t realese personal effects or sometimes a body if they died untill the fees are paid. Apersonal experience,when my auty was put on oxygen from a cylinder which turned out to be empty in a well known clinic in west airportno blood test had been done she was covered in blankets, another was spiking a temperatrure her husband who happened to be a professor iun medicine flew from Saudi arabia straight to the hospital before a doctor was called to attend because he was asking questions.
WHAT ARE THE MEASURES?THE PUBLIC MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THEM.IT APPEARS AS IF DOCTORS ALWAYS GET AWAY WITH PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCTS IN GHANA.THERE ARE SO MANY GHANAIANS WHO DIE BECAUSE OF THE INEFFICIENCIES OF DOCTORS AND YET THEY ARE PROTECTED FROM LEGAL ACTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC.ARE SUCH DOCTORS ABOVE THE LAW?THE GHANA MEDICAL BOARD SHOULD ENSURE THAT SUCH NEEDLESS DEATHS DO NOT HAPPEN.DOCTORS ARE ALWAYS MURDERING THEIR PATIENTS AND THAT TREND MUST STOP.
It,s good thetsome measures are put into place to guide the practice of medicine in Ghana.I always wonder when this will be initiated.most of the Physicians in Ghana are kill the patients rather than helping them.it appears that most of them are out of touch with current resarch and practises.It\'s ionic to see a docter prescribing medication to patients without telling them the name and what to expect.And the fanny part is that if you ask the Nurses will insult you ontop. Something wrong with thw whole culture of medicine in Ghana.Something needs to be done to help these poor patents. It\'s appears that they are causing more harm to most of the patients than good.I have relatives in Ghana and antime you asked what medicine the docter gaves, the answere is they dont tell you. There is no patient education whatsoever and even respect for patient rights. I am wondering even if patients in Ghana have rights.This is more bigger than this but I will end by saying it\'s time we apply new research into our practice and give patients their rights and respect back.
i hope our new doctors are willing to serve their nation and not................