Stop dragging our name into the mud -GMA

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed concern about how doctors have been criminalized in the media by some individuals including ministers of state after the missing stillborn baby at KATH.

A statement signed by the General Secretary, Dr Frank Serebour said the GMA would not sit aloof for any doctor to be used as an escape goat to pacify “some disgruntled individuals” in the missing baby saga which has hit the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).

It said, “Even though the GMA agrees that it is important to unravel the mystery surrounding the loss of the baby of Madam Suwaiba, this should not be the platform for anybody to drag the name of the GMA and for that matter any doctor into the mud.” 

The statement reminded the Ministry of Health and other agencies of laid down procedures to handle matters of such nature and asked the public to ignore statements by doctors of KATH that they would be attending to only three patients per day.

It said though Ghana had a high doctor to patient ratio with some regions recording as high as 1:12,000, doctors were still not in a position to work strictly according to the WHO recommendations of 1:3.