The decision to fly the Vice President to the UK for medical attention has attracted sharply divided opinion from the citizenry and governance watchers.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has raised concerns about the need Ghanaian politicians to buy healthcare service within the country rather than seeking it else where.
Vice President of the association Dr Frank Serebuor says Ghana can boast of some of the finest medical practitioners.
He explains that the country has some of the modern health facilities to meet a lot of health challenges of its people.
He said, “I am worried because it has become the practice that anytime a politician is sick, he or she is easily flown outside the country for medical treatment and a critical example is that of our late finance minister, Kwadwo Baah Wiredu who was taken to South Africa.
“But I can tell you that, the procedure our late Finance Minister undertook in South Africa is done more than twenty times a day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi here and no single death has been recorded”, he revealed.
Dr Serebuor adds, “So with this, what it means is that our politicians do not have confidence in the healthcare system they created for our people and it’s a cause for worry.”
Dr Frank Serebuor said government’s decision to send Dr Bawumia abroad for treatment is an indictment on Ghana’s healthcare system.
These comments come in the wake of news that Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has flown to the United Kingdom for medical treatment.
The decision to fly the Vice President to the UK for medical attention has attracted sharply divided opinion from the citizenry and governance watchers.
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