Doctors to apply for jobs from next year - Ghana Health Service

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has decided to now employ medical doctors and dentists under a quota system beginning next year.

The Director General of the GHS, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asarecurb who made this known said the move was to help practice where doctors refuse posting to deprived areas.

Under the new policy, doctors would have to apply to their respective regions before they can be engaged by the service.

“Our rural and deprived communities remains one of the priorities of this country, this explains why efforts are being made to ensure that each district have a functional hospital that befits its status."

"Unfortunately it has been observed the most young medical officers and dentists are reluctant to accept posting to work in such needy areas after their housemanship. This year, we have started interviewing doctors; we are not posting them anymore. We are not going to sit in Accra again and post any doctor” he said.

Dr Nsiah Asare said this when he addresss the 2017 grandaunt of the university Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on Saturday.

According to him, that will curb the practice where some doctors decline posting to deprived areas.