THE government is to upgrade the facilities at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi to reflect its status as a referral hospital.
This is to enable the facility to handle cases that require urgent attention, the Health Minister, Dr George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, has said in Takoradi
He said the days of looking on helplessly at cases that required urgent attention would be a thing of the past.
He said apart from upgrading the regional hospital, all other health facilities at the district level would also be taken care of.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic after addressing the annual conference of the Ghana Midwives Association in Takoradi, the minister said the abandoned accident and emergency unit at the hospital would also be completed to serve the purpose for which it was intended.
He said one of the problems of hospitals across the country was inadequate staff, and gave the assurance that the ministry was also doing everything possible to increase the intake into nursing training colleges.
The minister said facilities at the midwifery and nurses training colleges would be improved to ensure that more staff were trained and placed at the disposal of the health sector.
The minister used the opportunity to commend health workers for demonstrating the sense of duty that led to the resolution of various issues in the past few months.
“In the recent past the issue of salary between the ministry and the doctors were resolved without putting premium on the patients ” he said.
Dr Yankey said the government was doing everything possible to ensure that proactive measures were taken to avert future occurrences of withdrawal of services by the health workers.
He said the health of the people was very important to the government since it was only a healthy population that would develop the nation
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