The Minister of the North East Region, Mr Yidana Zakaria, has lamented how some five medical doctors rejected postings to that part of Ghana.

He noted that one of them came to tour the health facilities and did not show up again.

The other four, according to him, have also not reported.

Speaking to journalists on the sideline of the opening of a school structure at Walewale on Thursday, 22 July 2021, Mr Zakaria said: “This year, the Ministry of Health posted five trained qualified medical doctors” to the region but “none” of them “has responded to their post”.

“One came to do a tour of some health facilities and on her return to Accra, that was the end of it”, he bemoaned.

According to Mr Zakaria, several follow-ups were made to the Ministry of Health in Accra to get the doctors to report to work but to no avail.

The ministry, he said, explained that it will not repost any doctor who refuses an earlier posting.

“We went to the Minister of Health to make enquiries and the assurance was that they will not repost them”.

“They will insist they come to the North East Region but if they so decide that they were not going to serve in the public sector, there was little they could do,” he added.