Healthcare workers in the Greater Accra Region are demanding insurance policies from the government.
They have therefore asked the government to establish an insurance programme for health professionals.
Aside from the insurance policies, the health workers want incentive packages for staff working in remote areas.
This, they argued, would encourage them to do their best when posted to deprived communities.
The Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Directors of Health, Reverend Dr. Ebenezer Asiamah, made the call during the presentation of awards to more than 5,000 frontline and allied health workers in the region.
“I would ask that the President should still consider health workers and the good things we are doing… We don’t even have an insurance policy for health workers. There’s no insurance policy, we sacrifice daily, and our motto says ‘your health our concern’ so for our health, who is concerned? It is a question and I believe the president will hear us. If I’m now going to a deprived place and I know I won’t pay water and light bills, there’s accommodation, free transportation, I will sacrifice a young nurse or doctor or any profession to serve a number of years,” he said.
On his part, Greater Accra Regional Minister Henry Quartey assured the health workers that he would do all within his power to ensure their concerns were addressed.
“I know that the President has talked about these incentives by way of motivating hose in the health sector and other disciplines. So we will convey same through the minister of health to the President. It will be no news to the president because he has plans of that nature. It is on that we have to pray and bring our economy back,” the Minister said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana