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@bleym12 @_iamsamani @dr_bandak Again, I have a lot of things to do with that money than wasting it on GEMP

@mark1millikan @_iamsamani @dr_bandak Small boys are young 😂years later you will sneak into try to become a medical doctor!We will be here to remind you!

So if you finish the GEMP (Graduate Entry Medical Program), you will be automatically considered an oppressor😜 ❓

@Packmas_fcb How's your Bayern doing?

All this just to lose to Bayern, football can be cruel.

@justcfc Like how Nottingham forest embarrassed you on Monday Special afternoon Premier league football?😂

This will be worse than Tottenham 2019, PSG or Bayern will embarrass them in the final

@i_am_wataka @TrollFootball 😂😂

@mark1millikan @TrollFootball I’m not crying please

Arsenal: "I will never understand why everyone hates us so much." Also Arsenal:

@BayernPapa So because there's tomorrow, I shouldn't be excited that I got food to eat today?...you people are silly. Hatred has made y'all lose your minds

When Bayern win tomorrow. The players will act the same as when they win any other game. These guys are celebrating getting into the final like they’ve won it.

@i_am_wataka @TrollFootball Cry me a river

@TrollFootball Small teams get excited over petty things and this is the reason why Arsenal might bottle both or one of these trophies 😂😂😂😂

@Dani77k Good he deserves it😏

Ouch!

@JoyNewsOnTV Where was he when KODA was going on strike?

Laboratory professionals threaten strike: The strike is needless if their problem is about management issues - Rashid Tanko Computer, CEO, Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) youtube.com/live/Lv9C3Xsk1… #AMShow | #JoyNews

@bleym12 @_iamsamani @dr_bandak You're funny🤣🤣 Why would I go and waste money doing GEMP? I have lots of things to do with that money🤣🤣

@mark1millikan @_iamsamani @dr_bandak Don't worry, reality hasn't hit you yet!it will with time!You think he contemplated medicine just out of the blue?You are growing up,you will eventually grow and understand!

@bleym12 @_iamsamani @dr_bandak You're funny

@mark1millikan @_iamsamani @dr_bandak He's very one of you and will eventually cross the carpet to become a doctor!You could also add becoming a medical doctor to your list of to-dos in life!

@_iamsamani @dr_bandak You're already not one of us

@dr_bandak If you can’t beat them, join them 😂😂😂

@_Nephrologist @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak The content of the gamls central region spoke about assault? Did any doctor come out to say he or she has been assaulted, or they just speculate that they want to assault them?

@mark1millikan @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak But you read the content of the letters right?

Honestly, I would have preferred a different way of handling this. A strike over laboratory access feels like an overreach, especially in a national referral hospital where any disruption immediately affects patients. But the strike is not the real story. The real story is how we got here. Is this a leadership battle, or a territorial battle? If you believe the laboratory should be reserved only for medical laboratory scientists, that is not consistent with how modern diagnostic systems work. If you also believe the laboratory must be led only by laboratory physicians, that is equally incomplete. Those are the two extremes. A serious health system should be able to find a workable middle ground between them. —- The reason this conflict feels so intense is that the laboratory is the center of modern diagnosis. It determines cancer diagnoses, antimicrobial choices, transfusion safety, and clinical decision-making. That is why leading teaching hospitals treat laboratories as diagnostic systems rather than professional territories. ——- Medical laboratory scientists protect the technical reliability of results. They manage testing systems, sample processing, quality control, method validation, instrumentation, accreditation, and workflow. Their core question is: Is this result accurate and reliable? If a test is technically unreliable at Korle Bu, the mere presence of laboratory physicians will not automatically correct that failure. That is why this debate should not be reduced to a vague claim about “validating results.” —- I have also noticed that a few people don't seem to understand what laboratory medicine is about. Laboratory medicine is a well-established specialty. (The history of infectious diseases is one of my favorite topics) Laboratory physicians bring a different function. They connect laboratory findings to diagnosis, specialist reporting, treatment decisions, and complex patient care. Ghana’s own specialist training pathway recognizes laboratory medicine in anatomic pathology, chemical pathology, hematology, and medical microbiology. Their core question is: What does this result mean for the patient? ——- The term “validation” must be separated into at least two levels. Medical laboratory scientists confirm that the sample is acceptable, the instrument worked, quality control passed, and the result is analytically sound. In other words, “Technical Validation.” Laboratory medicine physicians provide clinical validation for a select # of specialist cases. It is worth noting that not every result needs a laboratory physician's sign-out/validation. Most are released through technical validation and approved procedures/protocols. But some tests are different. For example; A biopsy can diagnose cancer. A bone marrow report can diagnose leukemia. Genomic results can shape major clinical decisions. These sometimes require clinical correlation. In most established systems, this is mostly done by laboratory physicians —- If this dispute is mainly about who leads the laboratory, then a better model would be structured co-leadership. A laboratory physician can lead the clinical domain. A medical laboratory scientist should lead the technical and operational/administrative domain. This is what is done in major hospital labs. Then again, I hope this is not merely about “who heads the lab.” And I will be more disappointed if it's also about “ACCESS” —— Healthcare should be organized for patient outcomes and higher standards of care. We can achieve that only through collaboration. Not competing for professional dominance. —- In Johns Hopkins & other major hospitals, laboratory services sit within departments of pathology and laboratory medicine. They have a medical director (usually a laboratory physician/pathologist) and an administrative director (usually a medical laboratory scientist) ——- But what do you think the real issue is? I would love to hear from both sides

@MzInterkudzi @aky_agyemang @dr_bandak The training starts in medical school, yet these medics come to the field after medical school and not even know the principle behind common ABO blood grouping lol...how were they trained?

@aky_agyemang @dr_bandak Laboratory physicians aren’t trained in 2 years. The training starts from medical school. The basic sciences are everything. They build on that in clinical years and then at residency

@_Nephrologist @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak How do KBTH and GAMLS Central region correlate?

@mark1millikan @MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak Sometimes, read.

@bleym12 @_oaklight @dr_bandak You believe such news? Physically assault them? Let's be serious in this country

@_oaklight @dr_bandak @mark1millikan Yh and this was as far back as 2018 now they want it to sound like it's about lab headship only! They've in the past threatened to physically assault laboratory physicians who came to work in the laboratories!

Is this the real reason? Access? If so, why is this so difficult?

@bleym12 @dr_bandak It has never been about access, but headship Why have they called off the strike after the management withdrew the current head of labs and said the medical director should now be the head?

@dr_bandak @mark1millikan The genesis of this issue has been clearly about access. Read what an MLS had to say back when this issue started coming up: mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/…

@MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak And you say it's about they just working in the lab? Lol

@mark1millikan @dr_bandak Smh! The thing that I’m directly involved in?

@MzInterkudzi @dr_bandak Tell me you're not following the issue without saying you're not following

@dr_bandak Laboratory physicians are asking to be allowed to work in the labs, to do the things they are trained to do. They acknowledge the importance of the scientists and the work they do however unfortunately the scientists don't want the physicians in the lab

@_iamsamani KODA is saying the results produced by a laboratory that's accredited by the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation do not make sense. Do these doctors know how accreditation works? Eeii🤣🤣

I just watched this interview of a Korle Bu doctor explaining the strike and I’m honestly angry. Saying lab professionals “don’t have the training to correlate results with clinical findings” is simply false. Clinical correlation is part of our training. It’s exactly why we ask for DIAGNOSIS on request forms. You cannot send incomplete forms with no diagnosis, then turn around and say labs can’t correlate results. ALSO, The claim that labs have been producing “nonsensical” results for 10–15 years is not just inaccurate, it’s reckless. If that were true, we would have system-wide clinical failure, no routine care still functioning across the country. Lab medicine is not guesswork. It’s a regulated discipline built on SOPs, internal QC, EQA schemes, validation protocols and trained professionals who understand both the analytics and the clinical context. And since we’re talking about “why tests are repeated” and “why revenue drops,” let’s not pretend there aren’t other drivers. There are well-known practices where requests are redirected to private labs so that you the prescribers get a commission and we know it all too well and that has to be part of the conversation too. If there are specific cases of poor quality, present the data, audit it, fix it. But blanket statements about incompetence???? After training for 6 plus years I beg to differ! We all want patient safety. That requires accurate testing, proper clinical information and honest collaboration. Not selective narratives that place blame on one group while ignoring the full picture.