MP raises red flag over dismissal of GHS Boss

The Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament and the Honourable Member of Parliament (MP) for the Juaboso constituency, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has described the reason behind the dismissal of the newly appointed Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) as retrogressive.

It has been reported that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has fired the newly appointed Director-General of the GHS, Baffour Awuah following a petition filed by a group of persons calling themselves ‘NPP Doctors’.

It was reported that, the said group alleged that, Mr. Awuah is not a known and full member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and that was the basis for a demand for the reversal of his appointments which the President heeded to.

But speaking to journalists on the subject matter in Parliament, Akandoh expressed his disappointment in President Akufo-Addo for taking such a fruitless and ‘retrogresive’ action.

“At the time we are calling for the de-politicization of the health sector, the President has acted in this manner?

“Disease do not know political colours, diseases do not know NDC or NPP members,” he stated.

According to him, what is happening under this government is unbearable and people must speak out against it.

“I can pardon them for transferring NDC perceived members in other areas but for health sector, it’s very dangerous for us to read politics into it”.

Source: Edzorna Francis Mensah