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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the government is ready to consider a request by the leadership of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons to offer automatic post-retire\u00adment contracts to fellows who attained the mandatory retirement age, to enable them to continue to train medical specialists for the country.<\/b><\/p>\n

He has, therefore, directed the leader\u00adship to liaise with the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu and the Ghana Health Service to submit a comprehensive policy document on post-retirement con\u00adtracts for medical fellows who attained re\u00adtirement age for consideration and approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our meeting, you requested that fellows who attained the mandatory retire\u00adment age be given automatic post retirement contracts so that they can continue to train specialists in your training centre. Govern\u00adment is willing to do this to facilitate post\u00adgraduate medical training,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo disclosed this when he graced the maiden awards night of the college held in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The event climaxed the 20th anniversary of the college which was established in 2003 as part of measures to train post graduate medical officers and specialists for the coun\u00adtry\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n

He said the policy document must not only spell out the details of these post- re\u00adtirement contract, but must include a mecha\u00adnism to prevent the abuse of the initiative.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo said he was committed to his vision of making Ghana the \u201cCentre of excellence for medical care in West Africa by 2030\u201d by leveraging the country\u2019s favourable status as the most peaceful country in West Africa, a beacon of democracy on the continent and a land of opportunities.<\/p>\n

He said attaining this was beyond the building of just new healthcare facilities, stressing that \u201cWe will achieve this goal by first investing more in the development of our healthcare infrastructure, mapping our regional health facilities to specialisations as well as upgrading selective facilities in our regional and teaching hospitals to world class standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo said the fact that the college had increased the rate of produc\u00adtion of specialists in these fields by tenfold of what it was in 2003, when it was estab\u00adlished, was \u201cextremely worthy of commen\u00addation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the graduation ceremony last week, the college inducted 247 members and 87 fellows, bringing the total number over the past 20 years to 1937 members and 248 fellows. These numbers are evidence of the dedication shown by all who are involved in the training and examination of specialists in the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The President noted that it was as a result of the offset statement which decreed that the first wealth was health that issues of health had been enshrined in the 1992 con\u00adstitution, adding that \u201cIt is the reason access to quality health care is a right enshrined in our national constitution. This constitutional right can best materialise if we construct adequate health facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said his government\u2019s commitment to improving healthcare delivery system in the country was evident in the \u201cAgenda 111\u201d initiative, which was providing 101, and one standard 100-bed capacity district hospitals with accommodation for doctors and nurses at districts without district hospitals.<\/p>\n

This, he said was in addition to six new re\u00adgional hospitals each for the six new regions, rehabilitating the Efia-Nkwanta Hospital in the Western Region, building one new hospi\u00adtal for the Western Region and two psychi\u00adatric hospitals for two of the three zones of the country.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo said the entire package of the Agenda 111 was being under\u00adtaken at an estimated cost of US$1.765 bil\u00adlion, adding that \u201cThus far, construction of 86 district hospitals, two regional psychiatric hospitals and the Western regional hospitals are ongoing which are all at various levels of completion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The average completion rate of the 89 ongoing projects is 52 per cent. With work at some of the sites being 70 to 80 per cent complete, it is worthy to note that the constructions of these hospitals are being undertaken by indigenous Ghanaian contrac\u00adtors who provide direct and indirect jobs to Ghanaians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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