So shameful to have trained doctors sitting idle at home because government cannot employ them – Dr Sandaare
The inability of the government to engage about 1,000 new doctors who are done with their housemanship about a year ago and are still at home has left the legislator for Dafiama/Bussie/Issa, Dr Sandaare Sebastian worried.
He said Ghana risks losing these finely trained professionals if the government does not take the necessary steps to engage them early enough.
To Dr Sandaare we should not be facing such a situation at this time.
“They finish school and they are in the houses, so it is just to draw attention to government that it is not acceptable that as a country, we say that we cannot employ our doctors that have come out of training,” the member of the Health Committee of Parliament told the press in Accra on Thursday, September 1.
Dr Sandaare questioned why after fifty years of the existence of the Medical and Dental Council, there are still instances where doctors have to wait at home for several months before they are engaged.
