THE Director of Human Resource at the Ministry of Health, Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, has said the ministry will employ about 5,400 health professionals this year to augment the existing number of staff. He, however, cautioned health professionals not to refuse postings to the rural areas because there was a high concentration of staff in the urban areas, to the detriment of the rural areas.
Dr Appiah-Denkyira made the remarks during the first graduation and second matriculation of the Adom School for Medical Laboratory Technicians at Tema.
He gave the assurance that the Ministry of Health would not discriminate against products of private schools as far as recruitment was concerned.
Dr Appiah-Denkyira called on the grandaunds to consider forming an association of private health institutions to enable the ministry deal with their concerns.
He congratulated the 11 graduates for excelling in their final examinations and urged them to aim higher to achieve greater laurels and also encouraged the new entrants to learn hard.
Dr Appiah-Denkyira said the establishment of the school in October 2005 fulfilled one of the dreams of the Ministry of Health in partnering the private sector to develop the human resource requirements of the health sector.
He said since the ministry was not the only employment agency, the private entrepreneurs must be encouraged to open up more health facilities such as diagnostic and research institutions so that their products could have a wider employment opportunities.
The Principal of the Adom School for Medical Laboratory Technicians, Dr S. Q. Maddy, said the school was granted accreditation by the Ministry of Health in 2006, after it had admitted its first batch of students in 2005. This batch comprised seven males and four females.
He announced that after two years intensive training, all the 11 pioneering students which the Allied Health Sciences presented to be examined were successful; three obtained distinctions, six had credits and two, ordinary passes.
Dr Maddy said two of the students excelled in the major disciplines such as haematology, clinical chemistry and microbiology, while one emerged as the overall best student.
He said the graduates had also undergone six months internship training at various hospitals to gain practical experience.
Touching on the matriculation, Dr Maddy said the school had offered admission to 165 students, made up of 112 males and 53 females, representing the third and fourth batches of the student intake for the October 2007 and 2008 admissions respectively.
He gave the promise that the school would play a facilitating role in the area of job placement to ensure that graduates from the school were adequately placed.
The Overall Best Student Award for 2005-2007 went to Ms Rebecca Mawuse Sosu, who received most of the awards, including the Clinical Chemistry Award.
Monday, December 1, 2008
PROMOTE ROAD SAFETY IN COUNTRY (PAGE 71)
THE Minister of Transportation, Dr Richard W. Anane, has called on the vehicle inspection authorities to put in maximum effort to promote road safety in the country.
This, he noted, could reduce the present fatality rate of 21.3 persons per 10,000 vehicles to a single digit by 2015.
Dr Anane said this in a speech read on his behalf at the inauguration of a new GH¢260,615 office for the Driver, Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA), in Tema. The new facility has administration block, testing and examination offices, on-site banking hall and service unit to enable it to improve on revenue collection and speed up financial transaction of customers to eliminate undue delays and financial impropriety.
He said the DVLA Act 569 (1999) was enacted to promote good driving standards in the country and ensure the use of roadworthy vehicles.
Dr Anane noted that the provision of good office environment would also reduce the problem of “goro boys” whose activities undermined the efforts by the DVLA to serve its clients as best as possible.
He called on the DVLA officials to adhere to laid down procedures of the service, which would ultimately translate into good driving practices.
He said the effectiveness of the DVLA’s operations would have a direct impact on the efficiency of the road transport sector and reduce the incidence of traffic accidents.
He said a number of road accident fatalities and injuries occurred in the last three quarters of 2008 and took the opportunity to appeal to both drivers and pedestrians to strictly adhere to the road traffic regulations to avoid accidents especially in the wake of the forthcoming national elections.
Dr Anane said the Tema office ranked second in the registration of new vehicles and must serve as an incentive to the staff to provide quality service to clients.
The acting Chief Executive of the DVLA, Mrs Mabel Sagoe, said the total cost of the structure was funded by the authority from its own internally generated funds.
She said the Tema office restored 14,896 vehicles between January and October 2008 and by the end of October it was able to generate a total revenue of GH¢981,792.
Mrs Sagoe said the authority had made it a policy to improve its facilities to international standards and as a result it had completed and inaugurated two new offices at Wa in the Upper West Region and Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, and provided additional office facilities at the Kumasi office.
She said the decision to license and regulate private garages to test vehicles was to make the testing centre accessible to the motoring public and also improve the quality of vehicle testing.
Mrs Sagoe said the major challenges the authority faced was that of the ‘goro boys’ who operate on the premises of the authority.
She said although the authority had reviewed its procedures to reduce waiting time, clients still sought the assistance of the ‘goro boys’.
She appealed to all patrons of the DVLA to stop using these intermediaries and deal directly with the DVLA staff.
This, he noted, could reduce the present fatality rate of 21.3 persons per 10,000 vehicles to a single digit by 2015.
Dr Anane said this in a speech read on his behalf at the inauguration of a new GH¢260,615 office for the Driver, Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA), in Tema. The new facility has administration block, testing and examination offices, on-site banking hall and service unit to enable it to improve on revenue collection and speed up financial transaction of customers to eliminate undue delays and financial impropriety.
He said the DVLA Act 569 (1999) was enacted to promote good driving standards in the country and ensure the use of roadworthy vehicles.
Dr Anane noted that the provision of good office environment would also reduce the problem of “goro boys” whose activities undermined the efforts by the DVLA to serve its clients as best as possible.
He called on the DVLA officials to adhere to laid down procedures of the service, which would ultimately translate into good driving practices.
He said the effectiveness of the DVLA’s operations would have a direct impact on the efficiency of the road transport sector and reduce the incidence of traffic accidents.
He said a number of road accident fatalities and injuries occurred in the last three quarters of 2008 and took the opportunity to appeal to both drivers and pedestrians to strictly adhere to the road traffic regulations to avoid accidents especially in the wake of the forthcoming national elections.
Dr Anane said the Tema office ranked second in the registration of new vehicles and must serve as an incentive to the staff to provide quality service to clients.
The acting Chief Executive of the DVLA, Mrs Mabel Sagoe, said the total cost of the structure was funded by the authority from its own internally generated funds.
She said the Tema office restored 14,896 vehicles between January and October 2008 and by the end of October it was able to generate a total revenue of GH¢981,792.
Mrs Sagoe said the authority had made it a policy to improve its facilities to international standards and as a result it had completed and inaugurated two new offices at Wa in the Upper West Region and Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, and provided additional office facilities at the Kumasi office.
She said the decision to license and regulate private garages to test vehicles was to make the testing centre accessible to the motoring public and also improve the quality of vehicle testing.
Mrs Sagoe said the major challenges the authority faced was that of the ‘goro boys’ who operate on the premises of the authority.
She said although the authority had reviewed its procedures to reduce waiting time, clients still sought the assistance of the ‘goro boys’.
She appealed to all patrons of the DVLA to stop using these intermediaries and deal directly with the DVLA staff.
PICKPOCKETS AND BAG SNATCHERS ON THE LOOSE (PAGE 70)
THE nefarious activities of pickpockets and bag snatchers have started gaining grounds at business centres and market areas in the Accra and Tema metropolises.
Complaints from some victims indicate that no matter how careful one is, the miscreants are able to outwit their victims.
Ghanaians at this time of the year start preparations for Christmas but due to the forthcoming general election, business areas and political rally grounds have become fertile spots for the pickpockets and bag snatchers.
Recounting her experience to the Daily Graphic at Tema on Saturday, the Metropolitan Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Ms Felicia Yeboah, who was a victim to the pickpockets and bag snatchers, said she went to Accra on Saturday morning to visit a brother who had been admitted to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
She said on her way back she decided to join a Tema-bound bus at the Tema Station in Accra without suspecting any movements around her.
Ms Yeboah could not explain how and when her ladies’ handbag was snatched from her even before she could get to the bus terminal.
Ms Yeboah, who was surprised at the incident, said she had her voter’s identity card, press card, cellphone, some amount of money and other personal documents and items in the bag.
She said a good Samaritan offered to pay her transport back to Tema because she had nothing on her.
Ms Yeboah appealed to the transport unions operating at various stations to ask their members to wear identity badges or uniforms to ensure security at the lorry stations.
She explained that many young men paraded the stations under the guise of being “bookmen” and drivers’ mates without wearing any identification tags, thus making it difficult for passengers to know the sort of people around them.
Ms Yeboah also called for security patrols to be intensified at the stations during this electioneering and Christmas period to save the travelling public from the hands of the " anti-social gangs".
Complaints from some victims indicate that no matter how careful one is, the miscreants are able to outwit their victims.
Ghanaians at this time of the year start preparations for Christmas but due to the forthcoming general election, business areas and political rally grounds have become fertile spots for the pickpockets and bag snatchers.
Recounting her experience to the Daily Graphic at Tema on Saturday, the Metropolitan Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Ms Felicia Yeboah, who was a victim to the pickpockets and bag snatchers, said she went to Accra on Saturday morning to visit a brother who had been admitted to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
She said on her way back she decided to join a Tema-bound bus at the Tema Station in Accra without suspecting any movements around her.
Ms Yeboah could not explain how and when her ladies’ handbag was snatched from her even before she could get to the bus terminal.
Ms Yeboah, who was surprised at the incident, said she had her voter’s identity card, press card, cellphone, some amount of money and other personal documents and items in the bag.
She said a good Samaritan offered to pay her transport back to Tema because she had nothing on her.
Ms Yeboah appealed to the transport unions operating at various stations to ask their members to wear identity badges or uniforms to ensure security at the lorry stations.
She explained that many young men paraded the stations under the guise of being “bookmen” and drivers’ mates without wearing any identification tags, thus making it difficult for passengers to know the sort of people around them.
Ms Yeboah also called for security patrols to be intensified at the stations during this electioneering and Christmas period to save the travelling public from the hands of the " anti-social gangs".
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