The Municipal Chief Executive for Bawku, Amadu Hamza has lamented how some health workers are using the security situation in the area as an excuse to abandon their duties.
Amadu Hamza said while some have abandoned the jobs for which they are paid monthly for further studies, others simply refused to show up for work.
He indicated that for more than two years now, some health workers have failed to show up for duties for reasons local authorities do not know.
Expressing displeasure about the situation, the MCE indicated that he had attempted to get the said workers penalized for dereliction of duty or transferred from the area.
“Some people that have refused to come to work in the last 2 and half years. The reasons known to them. I do not manage the Ghana Health Service, I’m not a manager there,” he stated in an interview on Breakfast Today on Dreamz FM.
“We were worried about it at a point and then we wanted measures to be taken to put in place to ensure that those people are either punished or they get (them transfered)”.
Amadu Hamza was speaking on the mass exodus of workers that hit the area in the last 3 years and the consequential negative effects on education and healthcare delivery especially.
He said as many service providers fled the area, many more sought transfers there.
Authorities, however, realized that most of those who seek transfer, barely stay at post as they abandon their jobs to pursue their personal interests, using the disturbances as an excuse.
Measures have since been taken to check such a trend, he said.
