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Ministry of Health Begins Equitable Distribution of Doctors Nationwide

4Nov

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Ministry of Health Begins Equitable Distribution of Doctors Nationwide

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the commencement of an exercise to ensure the equitable and fair distribution of doctors across all regions and districts in Ghana. According to a statement signed by Tonny Goodman, Head of Health Training Institutions, the Ministry has urged doctors currently undergoing the recruitment process to accept postings to available vacancies in regional and district hospitals across the country. The move forms part of the Ministry’s broader commitment to improve the balanced distribution of health professionals and enhance access to quality healthcare nationwide. “This exercise is part of the Ministry’s broader commitment to improve evenly distribution of health professionals to ensure quality healthcare delivery nationwide,” the statement note...

Tamale Teaching Hospital: Doctors suspend emergency and outpatient services over Minister’s conduct, poor conditions

The Doctors Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH) has declared an indefinite suspension of emergency and outpatient services, effective immediately. This decision follows an emergency meeting held on April 23, 2025, in response to longstanding operational challenges and a recent altercation involving the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, and a senior doctor at the facility. Withdrawal of services In a statement released Tuesday night, the association announced that its members would no longer provide services at the general outpatient departments (OPD), antenatal clinics, specialist clinics, and paediatric OPD. However, DATTH assured the public that inpatient care would continue until all admitted patients are safely discharged. The doctors are also d...

Medics under siege: ‘We took this photo, fearing it would be our last’

Dr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last nine months in Sudan's western Darfur region. Over the last month the hospital has recorded 28 deaths and more than 50 injuries among its staff and patients because of intense shelling. This is the highest number of casualties recorded in a month since the siege began. "Recent continuous attacks targeting Saudi Hospital have intensified dramatically, it has become part of our daily lives," Dr Ibo, a Darfuri who has lived in el-Fasher since 2011, told the BBC. He said the most frightening day had been when a team of medics were performing an emergency caesarean as the shelling began - a near...