Poor roads, lack of accommodation driving health workers away from rural postings — GHS

The Northern Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has expressed concern over increasing difficulties in deploying health professionals to rural communities, attributing the challenge to poor road networks, inadequate accommodation and the lack of basic social amenities in many underserved areas.

He said collaboration between communities, local authorities and government would be critical in ensuring that residents in rural areas had access to qualified health professionals and quality healthcare services.

He explained that inadequate staff accommodation, poor transportation infrastructure and the absence of essential social amenities continue to discourage many professionals from accepting postings to rural communities, thereby affecting the equitable distribution of health personnel.