Health workers urged to put more value on ethics

Health professionals have been urged to put more value on ethics and work with total commitment and passion to bring relief to the sick.

Ms. Rita Anafu, Deputy Ashanti Regional Director of Nursing Service, said the motivation should be the saving of lives and not so much about money making.

The expectation was that they would continue “to establish that warm relationship”, which would help to build confidence and remove the anxieties of patients to speed up their healing.

She was performing the inaugural ceremony of the Health Assistants Association of Ghana at the Christian Village in Kumasi.

Madam Anafu said it was time they all accepted to work together and “go the extra mile” to achieve the health development targets of the nation.

She touched on the theme chosen for the event “The Role of Health Assistants in the Health Care Delivery System in Ghana” and said their contribution could neither be in doubt nor underestimated.

She said it should not be lost on anybody that people could go about their routine socio-economic activities only when they had good health.

It was for this reason that issues of health must never be gambled with by all stakeholders.

Ms. Leticia Aye-Diabene, Bekwai Municipal Director of Health Services, advised them to continue to upgrade themselves to keep pace with improvements in health care delivery.

She told the association not to only focus on the welfare of its members but on efficient performance of their duties.

The association has Mrs.Rose Hayford Austin as its President.

Source: GNA