Kwabena Frimpong, the Deputy Protocol Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has begged former President John Dramani Mahama to keep his campaign promise to make sure that trained health professionals are sent to every part of Ghana.
The retreat brought together important people from the health sector: policymakers, practitioners, and advocates, to have a serious talk about the progress that has been made and the problems that are still affecting healthcare in the country.
Frimpong’s appeal drew attention to an important and urgent issue: the growing number of nurses, midwives, and other health care workers who are out of work.
He said that taking care of this backlog is not only a political duty, but also a strong moral and national duty.
Ghana could make its healthcare system a lot better by making it easier for these skilled workers to get jobs. This would make sure that people get the good care they need and deserve.
Frimpong said that the Akufo-Addo government did a good job of posting health workers who had been trained between 2012 and 2016.
A lot of these workers had been out of work when Mahama was in charge before. He told Mahama to try to reach this goal again because it would fix mistakes he made in the past and show that he is a strong leader in the healthcare field.
Frimpong went on to say that making sure health workers get their jobs on time is very important for the bigger picture of good governance and national development.
He said that solving the unemployment problem would not only help many graduates find jobs but would also improve healthcare in Ghana as a whole.
This statement comes at a time when trainee nurses are unsure of what Mahama wants to do next. A lot of people doubt his promises to this group because they remember that he controversially stopped giving trainee allowances while he was president.
Mahama has promised to pay off debts and create more jobs for health trainees, but many of them think that these promises are just political moves that he doesn’t really mean.
Because of this, the health community is still cautiously hopeful, but cautious as they wait for Mahama to follow through on his promises.
