BE PROFESSIONALS...NOT WAGE EARNERS.

  A close friend,once narrated a gory incident that sent shivers down my spine. she told me a very nasty experience
she encountered when she went to deliver her first child.

According to her,she was forced to to walk to the labour ward in Korle-Bu whiles the head of the child popped up between her thighs .All because she was brought late to the hospital.

It saddens my heart,when i see and hear how our health personnel in our various government hospitals treat patients as if they are servants or better still,slaves.they shout at them,insult,ridicule and at times bear them as in the case of a child who was admitted in Korle-Bu and was whipped by a nurse because the child refused to take a drug administered.

All these injustices,meted out to patients,seeking medical attention at various state owned health facilities,contradicts article 30 of chapter 5 of the 1992 constitution which clearly spells out the rights of the sick and the Hippocratic oath taken by the medical personal on assuming office.

I therefore call on the ministry of health,national health insurance authority and the Ghana health service to take up this issue and address it with all seriousness because it has caused and is causing the untimely death of some patients.


                                                                                                  Christiana Afua Nyarko
                                                                                                   Level 200
                                                                                                   Ghana Institute of Journalism
                                                                                                   Accra.













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