The Medical and Dental Council has announced plans to implement compulsory distribution of medical specialists across Ghana to tackle a stark regional imbalance.
Currently, 83% of specialists are concentrated in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions, leaving patients in other regions with inadequate access to critical healthcare.
This initiative aims to ensure equitable healthcare delivery nationwide, addressing long-standing disparities and improving outcomes for underserved communities.
Registrar of the Council, Dr Divine Banyubala describes the situation as unacceptable insisting that under the proposed decentralization programme, specialists will be deployed across the country. "64 per cent precisely are in Greater Accra region and then Ashanti region has an additional 19 per cent.
