Poor facilities in Wa East District in the Upper East region have led to doctors declining postings to the district, says Dr Kingsley Pascal who happens to be the District Director of Health Services.[ads2]
According to him, the facilities at the district prevent some doctors including indigenes from accepting postings there.
In his view, Dr Pascal described the decision for some doctors to reject postings to the area as unfortunate and called on authorities to improve the facilities.[ads3]
“We have gotten a few postings but when they come, they see the place, they go and don’t come back… It is not a lost cause, we have taken some moves, and we have taken some of our staff to the medical school, but these are long-term moves. We are still looking around, and we are still trying to convince potential doctors. In fact, there are doctors from that locality, in fact the recent doctor who declined posting there is actually from the place where we wanted to station him” he said on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, March 7,
He added, “I am a doctor, and I am living there, and I cannot say that the district is so much deprived. It is deprived in a way, but I won’t say that it is totally deprived that a doctor cannot live there because I am living there, and providing services there.”[ads4]
He conceded that the road network in the district is in a very deplorable state while the telecommunication network in the area is not up to standard compounding the challenges in the area.
Dr Pascal who provides services to over 90,000 residents in the district which serves approximately 10 health centres, however expressed hope that conditions in the district will be improved to help convince some doctors to move to the area.[ads5]
