Narration: The Upper East Regional Health Directorate has reaffirmed its commitment to continuously lobby for assistance from wherever possible to address the numerous health challenges confronting the health sector of the region. The Deputy Regional Director, Clinical Care, Dr. Ernest Opoku gave the assurance at a joint matriculation ceremony for the Health Training Institutions in the Upper East Region. He lamented that the problem of inadequate health infrastructure for health institutions in the region still remain a major source of worry to the directorate, hence the need for stakeholders to partner government in dealing with the situation so as to ensure effective teaching and learning at all level. Correspondent Isaac Asare witnessed the ceremony and has come through with this report for Radio Ghana.
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The ceremony which brought together members of the Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana, principals of the various health training institutions of the region, heads of departments and government officials among other dignitaries saw 1,085 matriculants inducted into the health training instructions across the region. Participating schools were drawn from the Bawku Presbyterian Nurses Training College, the Community Health Nurses Training School at Navrongo, the Bolgatanga Health Assistant Training School and the Midwifery Training school as well as the Bolgatanga Nurses Training College. The Deputy Regional Director, Clinical Care, Dr. Ernest Opoku, who spoke on behalf of the Regional Director of Health Services assured, touched on the numerous health challenges confronting the health sector of the region. He highlighted on a number of interventional measures put in place by the region’s health directorate to address some of these challenges which he noted include inadequate health infrastructure for health training institutions, acute shortage of health personnel to man the various health facilities and health professionals refusal to accept postings to the region. He said as much is expected of the country’s health sector in the quest for attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, stakeholders must be brought on board to complement government’s effort in attracting enough resources and infrastructure to address the situation. The Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo in an address expressed the hope that the region through government’s support will benefit from sponsorships as well as other incentive packages to ensure effective service delivery. He said government places a high premium on health service delivery and is determined to establishing more training institutions and increase student intake in health training institutions. According to Mr. Woyongo, the creation of more CHPS Compounds coupled with the proposed one time premium under the NHIS among other interventions are clear indications of government’s readiness to boost the health sector of the country. He commended the management of the various health institutions for initiating moves to produce the needed human resources for the health care industry despite the inadequate health infrastructure and shortage of the requisite tools and materials for effective teaching and learning in most of the health training institutions, particularly those in Northern Ghana. Mr. Woyongo reminded the graduants to be discipline and dedicated throughout the course of their study stressing that government through the health sector of the region is working tirelessly to improve their condition of service and working environment as a way of motivating them to serve the region after completion. The Director of Human Resources at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ken Sagoe, advised the matriculants to explore the opportunities and platform given them as an entry point to greater height in their professional and career advancement within the health sector of Ghana. He also urged them to take up the challenge of accepting postings and serving the various communities in the region after completion.
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