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Report by Bernard K DADZIE
The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana has assured the general public that the proper mechanism has been put in place to ensure quality Medical and Dental practitioners at all levels.
Thus according to the Ghana Medical And Dental Council, with the role of technology they will expand their training facilities to boost the efficiency of Medical and Dental Practitioners across the country.
Speaking at a press briefing to highlight activities marking their 50 years in existence, Divine N. Banyubala, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Medical and Dental Council, pointed out that his outfit will do everything possible to ensure Medical And Dental council will go far beyond margination.
The Chief Executive Officer continued that with dedication the Council will continue to work with all stakeholders to guide the profession, promote, protect and assure public health, safety and well-being of all persons accessing healthcare in Ghana at large.
Register Divine N. Banyubala during the press briefing disclosed that lack of inadequate resources lead people to train without satisfactory.
‘We know that we don’t have sufficient resources. This is a reason why we are not able to take as many otherwise qualified young persons desiring to do medicine locally,” he said.
To that extent, he said a lot of young people end up going into other jurisdictions to train and their experience has been that the training is less than satisfactory and conversations will be hard as what we can do to increase the opportunities locally.
According to him, these investments is going out without getting the best returns because a poorly trained doctor is a dangerous doctor and he hopes that the anniversary conversations will match and yield some national consensus.
“I am quite confident that with the support of our ministers and the presidency, a new policy direction will be charged for this country,” he added.
The 50th anniversary celebrations was under the theme “Reflections on 50 years of medical regulation” is scheduled from Sunday, 28th August to Thursday, 1st September, 2022 at Alisa hotel in Accra where the Vice-President will be the special guest for the occasion.
The Council expects about two thousand (200) in-person attendance daily for the three days. And it is a hybrid conference. So they are going to have a virtual component and also look up to thousand (1000) participants virtually and at least (200) participants in-house.
As part of the anniversary celebration, Council hosted a policy dialogue in June, 2022 ( scope of practice for physical assistant, Policy on the training of Ghanaian medical and dental students in other jurisdictions, Specialist register and Policy on Practitioners stamp, name Tag and Appropriate professional apparel).
The Medical and Dental Council MDC is the statutory Agency under the Ministry of Health whose object as established under part ll of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act, 2013, (Act 857) is to secure in the public interest to the highest standards in the training and practice if medical and dentistry in Ghana.
University Chancellors will attend the 50th anniversary conference, the Provosts of the various colleges, the Deans of all the medical and dental training institutions, Public and private Faculty top level, and representatives from the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and others.
The Council thanked all stakeholders for their continued support and cooperation: in particular, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, Development partners, Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Deans and Faculty of the various Universities, Traditional Medical Practitioners Council, Psychology Council and many more.
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