Dr. Alexis Nang-beifubah, the Upper West Regional
Director of Health Services, has appealed to all doctors and nurses from the region to clear their conscience and come back home to help save the lives of their own people.
He said the Upper West Region was blessed with the human resource especially in the health
sector yet it had been neglected by many including those from the regionwhile their people died from preventable diseases due to lack of adequate and critical medical staff.
He said it was sad to note that only three general doctors out of the numerous doctors from the region were serving in the region.
Dr. Nang-beifubah made the appeal during an official send off party for Dr. Jacob Abebrese, the Medical Director at the Upper West Regional Hospital who is on transfer to the Brong-Ahafo
Region.
He said if their own sons and daughters living outside the region would not come home to
serve, they should desist from the practice of using the region as an experiment grounds where
they could just walk in anytime with white doctors unannounced to carry out their experiments
without passing through the right channels.
"We may be poor but we have self respect and dignity and we will not allow anybody to toy
with it", he said.
He commended Dr. Abebrese for his selfless dedication and commitment towards ensuring
quality health delivery at the Regional Hospital during his tenure as the Medical Director.
He mentioned the tarring of roads within the premises of the hospital,the expansion of the
casualty ward, renovation of old structures and improvement in the overall performance of other
staff members of the hospital as some of the achievements of Dr Abebrese.
Mr. Mahmud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister, commended the doctor for his hard work
and commitment to duty that had helped to improve quality health delivery and urged others to
emulate him.
Dr. Abebrese thanked the staff for cooperating with him and added that but for their
cooperation he could not have made all those achievements.
He promised to make himself available to them whenever they wereseriously in need of his
services and urged them to continue to work hard to improve on health services in the Municipality and the region at large.
Some hard working including retirees were awarded for their outstanding contribution towards
quality health delivery at the hospital.