College of Physicians and Surgeons honours three
The Ghana National College of Physicians and Surgeons has recognised and honoured three scholars as honorary fellows for their outstanding contribution to medical education research, especially at the postgraduate level.
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They are Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo, Professor Dr Rolf Horstmann and Professor Aaron Lawson.
Another group of physicians also received recognition for meritorious, outstanding and distinguished service to the college at an awards dinner organised later in the day to climax the 10th anniversary celebration of the college.
In an address, the Rector of the College, Professor David Ofori-Adjei, expressed the hope that the new fellows and members would carry out their professional responsibilities in a manner that would enhance the image of the college and abide by the tenets of the pledge they have taken.
He said the college, since its inception, has enrolled 1,018 residents into membership training and 174 in fellowship training and, so far, 438 have been awarded membership qualification and another 15 fellowship qualification.
Challenges in attracting specialists
According to Prof. Ofori-Adjei, the college continues to have challenges in attracting residents into specialties such as Anaesthesia, Family Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Psychiatry, among others, and added that the college would continue to pursue avenues to enhance interest in these specialties and improve on the mix of specialists.
Professor Ofori-Adjei asserted that it was important for the health sector to strengthen its human resource database to allow for prompt tracking of specialists and other health personnel for healthcare planning and training purposes.
He announced that the college had obtained data on projected graduate output for the next five years from all the medical and dental schools in the country.
Medical institutions in districts
The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Mr P. V. Obeng, who represented President John Mahama, announced that government was considering putting up medical institutions in the various districts to provide easy access to the increasing demand for quality healthcare delivery.
He said effective modern methods in healthcare delivery would also be provided in the districts, and urged the doctors to expand the scope of monitoring to encourage more investors to the health sector.
He said the, government alone could not fund all health activities and called for public private partnership in the sector in order for the country to meet the health needs of the people.