Brain drain among doctors down by 95%

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• JM 7 years ago

  Proff train more doctors who are qualified from all the region, not selecting professors children only from Ashanti region to do medicine. .

  Proff train more doctors who are qualified from all the region, not selecting professors children only from Ashanti region to do medicine. .

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• two terms enough for each party 7 years ago

  Yes children of lecturers. The answer is to increase intake to 500 in Accra & 500 in Kumasi. This pomposity among doctors will end. They will give excuses because their children will enter even with lower grades

  Yes children of lecturers. The answer is to increase intake to 500 in Accra & 500 in Kumasi. This pomposity among doctors will end. They will give excuses because their children will enter even with lower grades

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• Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

  Not in the US. When doctors from foreign states travel to the US, their training is not recognized until they start it all over from levels 100 again. We have seen them. If you get your cert, stay here. It's dangerous put the ...
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  Not in the US. When doctors from foreign states travel to the US, their training is not recognized until they start it all over from levels 100 again. We have seen them. If you get your cert, stay here. It's dangerous put there. A word of caution to you an intended immigrant

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• ndc is going 7 years ago

  Some certs are recognised but you have to sit an exam. there are over 500 doctors trained in ghana in USA. The dont start all over

  Some certs are recognised but you have to sit an exam. there are over 500 doctors trained in ghana in USA. The dont start all over

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

  Yes, you are right. Doctors from Ghana do not start all over again, They may be asked to take some few courses that were not taken in Ghana, write the certification exams. If the one passes, that is all. It happens in other p ...
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  Yes, you are right. Doctors from Ghana do not start all over again, They may be asked to take some few courses that were not taken in Ghana, write the certification exams. If the one passes, that is all. It happens in other professions like Teachers and lawyers.

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• Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

  I really agree with your comments. If you get time to google US medical practice with foreign training, you'd get a clear picture. As for the certification, you can always go to pass and you can get those additional courses t ...
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  I really agree with your comments. If you get time to google US medical practice with foreign training, you'd get a clear picture. As for the certification, you can always go to pass and you can get those additional courses to backup. But I tell you, in the US, you start to go into the profession right from high school. Major qualifications would include how much community service you have, your military involvements, etc. It's a whole lot of frustration. Upon all these, you start as post doc like Housemanship in Gh for 3 years. Getting a position is another burden because you are basically foreign trained. Employers wouldn't take any chances as far as delivery is concerned. Brothers, it's really hard ooo. And when they realize that your age is advancing from 25, another level of hesitation.
  On a light note, kudos for your bravery against corrupt mahama led ndc.

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• Kid 7 years ago

  In my case, I came home bcos you feel trapped working out there .It looks like there is someone waiting for you to make a mistake and then you get fired or you get bad-mouthed ,,the renumeration though good is also taxed good ...
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  In my case, I came home bcos you feel trapped working out there .It looks like there is someone waiting for you to make a mistake and then you get fired or you get bad-mouthed ,,the renumeration though good is also taxed good..U end up over- working yourself & developing all sorts of diseases from stress,,I arrived home,,the salary is nowhere near my previous salary abroad,but my impact on society is fulfilling & I walk around with a smile ,,home is home indeed .

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• Y3baba 7 years ago

  You meant it happened to other professions like "teaching and Law" or it happened to other professionals like teachers and lawyers? I am confused.

  You meant it happened to other professions like "teaching and Law" or it happened to other professionals like teachers and lawyers? I am confused.

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• KKBK 7 years ago

  The measures put in place may be true, but I believe strongly that our doctors who travelled to the Europe's and the USA never had life easy that's why they've advised themselves not to travel anymore. US and European countri ...
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  The measures put in place may be true, but I believe strongly that our doctors who travelled to the Europe's and the USA never had life easy that's why they've advised themselves not to travel anymore. US and European countries don't recognise them and they do the shit jobs there like cleaning tha asses of the aged. Opportunities must be given to all qualified candidates who wish to pursue medical courses, it shouldn't be tribal.

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• eBenezer 7 years ago

  WHAT DOES MAHAMA HAS TO SHOW?UNEMPLOYED INCREASED BY 45% ACCORDING TO THE UN. NOW VOTE FOR HIM FOR MORE DANGER.

  WHAT DOES MAHAMA HAS TO SHOW?UNEMPLOYED INCREASED BY 45% ACCORDING TO THE UN. NOW VOTE FOR HIM FOR MORE DANGER.

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• eBenezer 7 years ago

  WHAT DOES MAHAMA HAS TO SHOW?UNEMPLOYED INCREASED BY 45% ACCORDING TO THE UN. NOW VOTE FOR HIM FOR MORE DANGER.

  WHAT DOES MAHAMA HAS TO SHOW?UNEMPLOYED INCREASED BY 45% ACCORDING TO THE UN. NOW VOTE FOR HIM FOR MORE DANGER.

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• Odikro 7 years ago

  The hard fact is our Ghanaian doctors are ill-trained and can hardly get a decent job anywhere, unless they are prepared to do graduate work elsewhere. The decrease in the flight of the doctors has nothing to do with improved ...
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  The hard fact is our Ghanaian doctors are ill-trained and can hardly get a decent job anywhere, unless they are prepared to do graduate work elsewhere. The decrease in the flight of the doctors has nothing to do with improved conditions of service of any steps taken by government.

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• Ghanaian 7 years ago

  Truth be told, it is now very very difficult for the Ghanaian Doctors to get into Residency programs abroad especially the United States.

  Truth be told, it is now very very difficult for the Ghanaian Doctors to get into Residency programs abroad especially the United States.

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• NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

  I agree that as blacks the system is stack against them but let be fair, the standard is the same for all foreigners and having said so, we also know that so many Ghanaian-trained doctors are practicing in the USA.

  I agree that as blacks the system is stack against them but let be fair, the standard is the same for all foreigners and having said so, we also know that so many Ghanaian-trained doctors are practicing in the USA.

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• KKBK 7 years ago

  I can tell you as a matter of fact that all the doctors you know are now back to Ghana either practicing privately or with government hospitals. No where cool brother......

  I can tell you as a matter of fact that all the doctors you know are now back to Ghana either practicing privately or with government hospitals. No where cool brother......

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• Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

  I told them what's in the US. I wish I could personally speak to them

  I told them what's in the US. I wish I could personally speak to them

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• Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

  In the first place, I'll advise you to deworm because your ndc association has reversed your mental reasoning. That's another level of worm infestation of the brain. Secondly, I like you to obtain facts and not fiction as re ...
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  In the first place, I'll advise you to deworm because your ndc association has reversed your mental reasoning. That's another level of worm infestation of the brain. Secondly, I like you to obtain facts and not fiction as regards medical practice abroad. Standards aren't same everywhere. Get that in your mind. Technological resources in US far out run gh, so are the standards of practice.

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• NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO. 7 years ago

  Motherfucker, go tell your prostitute mother to douche her rotten and stinking pussy. Get lost!

  Motherfucker, go tell your prostitute mother to douche her rotten and stinking pussy. Get lost!

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• Mohammed Abdulai 7 years ago

  Yes they are practicing here in the USA but not with the direct degrees they brought from Ghana.Dont get me wrong, this applies to most foreign trained doctors.They go through a lot of hell before they get accepted.

  Yes they are practicing here in the USA but not with the direct degrees they brought from Ghana.Dont get me wrong, this applies to most foreign trained doctors.They go through a lot of hell before they get accepted.

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• NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

  We need to find out what we did right as a nation to stem the outflow and learn from it. I know conditions are still not the best but let be grateful to our "tin-gods" for deciding to stay and help the poor, the sick, and th ...
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  We need to find out what we did right as a nation to stem the outflow and learn from it. I know conditions are still not the best but let be grateful to our "tin-gods" for deciding to stay and help the poor, the sick, and the needy.

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• OPANINPA 7 years ago

  THE REAL REASON IS THAT FOREIGN NATIONAS ARE TRAINING THEIR OWN DOCTORS AND EUROPE AND BRITAIN ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR AFRICAN DOCTORS TOLEGALLY STAY. YES, IT IS GOOD TO TRAIN THEM AT HOME.

  THE REAL REASON IS THAT FOREIGN NATIONAS ARE TRAINING THEIR OWN DOCTORS AND EUROPE AND BRITAIN ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR AFRICAN DOCTORS TOLEGALLY STAY. YES, IT IS GOOD TO TRAIN THEM AT HOME.

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• afia 7 years ago

  Onipaba its a lie. Any dr train from another country is required to pass an exams. Us trained drs have to pass an exams in ghana before starting to work.no gh trained dr starts from level100 in the us.please dont run down our ...
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  Onipaba its a lie. Any dr train from another country is required to pass an exams. Us trained drs have to pass an exams in ghana before starting to work.no gh trained dr starts from level100 in the us.please dont run down our systems in ghana.remember you are not the only ghanaian resident in us. Make we hear.im in the states,im in uk what work are u doing there ?nanny cleaner.im not saying being a nanny or cleaner is no job but ghanaians are tired and fedup with this ghanaians in the u.s who portray u.s like heaven and gh as hell.

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• Adomakoh Froboo 7 years ago

  How much do they pat doctors in Ghana?

  How much do they pat doctors in Ghana?

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• IN-FIGHTING 7 years ago

  Of course the brain drain situation may have improved but the picture painted by the professor cannot be entirely true.There is a new resurgence now with a dramatic paradigm shift with a lot of young doctors moving to Souther ...
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  Of course the brain drain situation may have improved but the picture painted by the professor cannot be entirely true.There is a new resurgence now with a dramatic paradigm shift with a lot of young doctors moving to Southern and Eastern African states with relatively better condition of service.There maybe better condition of service with better remuneration but other factors on the blind side are significantly contributing to the current high attrition rate which are specific or personal rather than general.We know for a fact that nepotism,cronyism,dirty politics, religion ,sexism,ethnic prejudice and hate play a key role in some instances.Selective discrimination and favoritism based on the above stated parameters even applies to postgraduate training.Even the reaction on this platform is talking about wards of doctors not better qualified favoured in medical admission pointing to typical case of nepotism.This phenomenon has been extrapolated to real practice itself where others are victimized either because they don't have biological parents as doctors or foster parents termed as God Fathers or Mothers.We have seen instances where numerous young doctors have been relentlessly pursuit, victimized and persecuted on grounds of ethnicity,religion or social background.Indeed there are some old doctors who still hold on to a precolonial mentality of the medical profession reserved for some elite tribe or families with others unfit to be doctors.That is why somebody like Dr.Akyem Apea-Kubi who have all 4 children as doctors can pursue a northerner right from medical school days to eventually have him sacked.How did it happen?It was a group of Akans including Dr.Ebenezah Appiah Denkyira,the DG of GHS an Akyem himself who fraudulently implicated the young practitioner with a mental illness to have him dismissed through an indefinite suspension in less than a month in office as the new Director General.This is the typical case of nepotism,cronyism and ethnic prejudice and hate we are talking about.This is exactly why we have a high attrition rate particularly in public health institutions by those who feel victimized and persecuted in a mixture of selective discrimination and favouritism.Brain drain still exist but it is more personal than general.The only buffer is young doctors hard done by a discriminative and selective profession finding solace in private practice thankfully with Ghana now a middle income Country.

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• Aku Mansa 7 years ago

  It is a shame to use this platform to settle score with biased information
  
  If you were bold enough to name the Doctors involved in the dismissal why don't you reveal the Northern Doctor who was wronged for us to find out t ...
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  It is a shame to use this platform to settle score with biased information
  
  If you were bold enough to name the Doctors involved in the dismissal why don't you reveal the Northern Doctor who was wronged for us to find out the facts
  
  This tribal undertones dies help anybody
  
  Go to Mahara Government. It us suggested that about 90% of his hirees are Northners. Is it any more comforting?
  
  Ghana is indeed gone to the Dogs and running into the ABYSS

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• Akonta Besi Fom 7 years ago

  The truth is that JSS/SSS doctors from West African universities are not good enough to be offered employment in countries that have stringent admission systems like excellent A Level grades. They can't even pass the prelimi ...
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  The truth is that JSS/SSS doctors from West African universities are not good enough to be offered employment in countries that have stringent admission systems like excellent A Level grades. They can't even pass the preliminary exams to admit them into British and American Medical Schools for the extra training they need.

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• Otumfuo 7 years ago

  Akuffo Addo, NPP, Moati? Have you heard that?

  Akuffo Addo, NPP, Moati? Have you heard that?

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• PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

  Three Ghanaian couples went to a hotel in America for their honeymoons. They were all served by Bill. The first man was married to a nurse. "Nurses are cute." Bill thought to himself. The second man was married to a phone ope ...
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  Three Ghanaian couples went to a hotel in America for their honeymoons. They were all served by Bill. The first man was married to a nurse. "Nurses are cute." Bill thought to himself. The second man was married to a phone operator. "Phone operators have sexy voices." Bill thought to himself. The third man was married to a teacher. "Teachers are too formal and strict. poor guy." Bill thought to himself. After their honeymoons were over, Bill got a call from the first man. "NEVER MARRY A NURSE! ALL I HEARD LAST NIGHT WAS 'THAT'S UNSANITARY. THAT'S UNSANITARY'!" he screamed into the phone. A little later, Bill got a call from the second man. "DON'T MARRY A PHONE OPERATOR! ALL SHE SAID WAS 'YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP'!" the man raged. After a few more minutes, Bill got a call from the last man. "Remember to marry a teacher, Bill. She kept saying 'we're going to do this over and over again until we get it right'."

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• Sidik 7 years ago

  Yet unpatriotic ppl will go n sit in UK n try to paint Ghana black as if nothing works in GH under JM.

  Yet unpatriotic ppl will go n sit in UK n try to paint Ghana black as if nothing works in GH under JM.

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• nana addo 7 years ago

  Why are over 1500 of the 3000 doctors in public service in accra and kumasi alone when the whole of the upper west region has 10.

  Why are over 1500 of the 3000 doctors in public service in accra and kumasi alone when the whole of the upper west region has 10.

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• Abusua. 7 years ago

  Its because it has become nearly impossible for foreign medical graduates to be accepted for residency programs in the US. Not because conditions are better here. The Americans have tightened their system to foreigners and ev ...
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  Its because it has become nearly impossible for foreign medical graduates to be accepted for residency programs in the US. Not because conditions are better here. The Americans have tightened their system to foreigners and even American who train abroad are even finding it difficult to.enter programs.

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