Government to introduce strategies to address healthcare worker migration

Health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has outlined several measures that need to be implemented to address the growing outflow of Ghanaian doctors seeking employment opportunities abroad.

This followed urgent calls by Ghanaian doctors for government intervention to stem the mass exodus of nurses and other essential doctors that is straining the country’s healthcare system.

In 2023 alone, almost four thousand nurses left Ghana for Europe and America in search of better career opportunities.

Stakeholders are increasingly concerned that if this trend is not urgently addressed, it will lead to a critical shortage of healthcare workers.

Dentists in particular are among the significant numbers of people leaving the country.

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at KNUST, Prof. Akwasi Antwi-Kusi, therefore called on the government to immediately introduce initiatives to curb this alarming trend.

Dr Okoe Boye assured that the Ministry of Health is committed to addressing the challenges facing dental services and other pressing issues in the healthcare sector.

SOURCE: GRAPHICONLINE

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