The President of the Ghana Medical Association, (GMA) Dr Frank Serebour, has disclosed that medical doctors working at Bawku are grappling with extreme emotional stress, fear of being attacked and stress leading to widespread absenteeism.
Speaking in a recent interview on JoyNews, he noted that the situation had drastically affected healthcare delivery in the area. "The doctors work under extreme emotional stress and fear.
If you speak to them, you realise that most of them are not themselves and they will tell you that their output has really gone down.
So, what is happening is that for some of them, even going to work is a problem. "Absenteeism is something that is very much rife and a few of them have decided to leave.
