The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) wants a review of the country’s strategy for combating the COVID-19 in order to arrest the alarming rate at which the disease is spreading in the country.
It said with the numbers increasing, its members also had to bear the brunt as “the increasing numbers mean our members are being overstretched to provide the needed healthcare services and, unfortunately, some are even paying the heavy price.”
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the General Secretary of the GMA, Dr Titus Beyuo, said it was important to review the strategy to manage the pandemic in the country to ensure that, particularly, doctors were spared the pain of having to work in fear.
He was reacting to the death of a Consultant Surgeon, Dr Richard Kisser, of the Trust Hospital who reportedly died of COVID-19 last Thursday.
Big blow
Dr Beyuo described the death of Dr Kisser as another big blow to the medical profession in Ghana, stressing that “it is not just about the loss of life but the gap such losses are creating.”
“Dr Kisser’s death brings to four, the number of our members who have succumbed to the infection. Of the number, the least qualified person was a specialist, the other three were consultants and that is the highest level of our profession.
“These are people who have reached the level where they are training and mentoring people, so for us to lose them leaves a big void, considering the number of years it takes to train a specialist.
Source: graphic.com.gh
