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Health News Sunday, June 16, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-06-16
The 11 members of Allied Health's Board of Directors
An 11-member board of directors for the paramedical health council was inaugurated Friday in Accra to oversee the regulation of education, training and the exercise of paramedical professions.
This board, made up of experienced health care workers, should, within the next 18 months, determine the scope of practice of the health profession and provide an effective regulatory system for workers, whose work has a direct impact on the health profession. public.
Chaired by Professor Augustine Kwame Kyere, the other council members are; Dr. Samuel Yaw Opoku and Dr. Gaetan Charles Adangabey.
The others are; Dr. Prince Sadoke Amuzu, Dr. Samuel Kyei, Dr. Matilda Asante and Mr. Ofori-Amoah Justice. Dr. Ernest Asiedu, Mrs. Anna Pearl Akiwumi Siriboe, Mr. Richard Asamoa-Mensah and Ms. Justina Owusu Banahene.
Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Minister of Health, who inaugurated the Board of Directors, entrusted them with the mandate to identify and badyze the challenges faced by health professionals and other health professionals. to submit proposals to this effect.
He encouraged the council to work hard to erase the negative perception of the health profession.
Professor Augustine Kwame Kyere, Chair of the Board of Directors, thanked the Minister for listening to their request for the establishment of the Board of Directors.
He promised that the newly formed council would try to justify his candidacy and correct any anomalies in the health profession, which represented about 60% of the health workforce in the country.
Dr. Ignatius Awinibuno, President of the Allied Health Federation of Ghana, commissioned the council to quickly catch up with the 29 months of activity of training institutes and allied medical professionals in the field of health.
"The board is supposed to address issues such as corporate governance breaches and find out how expenses were previously approved, while there was no advice from anyone." Administration, "he said.
He added that paramedics relied on the board of directors to solve the problem of quackery, which was invading the world, preventing unqualified people from entering health facilities and protecting society.
He also asked the board of directors to monitor and stop the establishment of training schools for mushroom-related and lower-grade diseases to restore public confidence in the profession.
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