Serbeh Yaw Frimpong
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Dear Ghanaians, Some Medical doctors own private laboratories. Most gain commissions of between 30% to 50% on every laboratory test taken outside the hospital laboratories to private ones.This is the only reason why they want to work in and control public laboratories
Point one is a flaw. They must know that the lab scientists and the doctors are two different professionals regulated by two different regulatory agencies, Allied health professions council and the medical and dental council respectively. Are the doctors going to allow other professionals who are not under the medical and dental council sit in the consulting room to see patients? Why does one wants to cross their boundaries into the other's field, and demand to head them. Lab results reviewed by qualified personnel? There are Doctor of lab science degree holders, and you think they are not qualified? Doesn't the lab results come to them in the consulting rooms also? Why then do you want to forcibly enter the lab? Will they agree if other professionals like pharmacists demand that prescription of medicines should be left for the pharmacist after a diagnosis is made? Because pharmacists see dangerous prescriptions from Doctors everyday. This is about calculated attempts to capture the hospital systems, not about patient safety. 2. For point 2 You are crying about insufficient staff that cannot handle OPD services, which I perfectly understand. If you have insufficient staff, why don't you focus on the work in the consulting rooms and wards, but trying to push some of the insufficient staff to the labs? Maybe I don't understand
Medical Doctors at Korle Bu are asking the government to allow them to run the hospital's medical laboratory unit, or they will embark on a strike.
@deelite @efraimbert @dr_berkai If it were to be within my powers i’d ban that “useless” Laboratory Physician program at GCPS Rightfully put, lazy medicine We need more medical doctors at very important sectors not this job (important tho) This should be left to the MLS; they have done well enough
Consider this, a situation where Clinical Pharmacists say, we should be in the consulting room and sign all prescriptions from MDs before they are given to patients. How will that feel?
Consider this, a situation where Clinical Pharmacists say, we should be in the consulting room and sign all prescriptions from MDs before they are given to patients. How will that feel?
@KobbyA_ Our current president got his bachelor’s degree in History in ‘81. Does that mean history teachers are meant to be presidents? Are appointments based on merit or who contributed academically? I’m still trying to make sense of your tweet. Enlighten us.
And these are intellectuals who should know best.
@KobenaLutterodt lol you do your residency dey come head MLS with PhD in the laboratory? How do you guys think ?
But should MDC regulation be automatic in this case? If I’m certified to fly a passenger plane, does that automatically qualify me to fly a fighter jet or a chopper? I’m asking because of what I see where I work. We already have highly trained professionals, some with PhDs, who validate results and handle core aspects of lab practice as outlined in the KODA presser. So the question is not whether LPs are qualified. It’s whether the existing scope and regulation already covers these functions, or if we are overlapping roles without clear boundaries. Ahhh well…
