The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has called on the government as a matter of priority to grant financial clearance for the recruitment of the over two thousand qualified and licensed medical laboratory practitioners in the country.
The Association equally resolved that medical laboratory practitioners shall remained committed to providing quality services in their line of duty to ensure good public health and safety.
These were contained in a communiqué issued by GAMLS at the end of its 2019 Annual Congress and Health Summit held at Jirapa in the Upper West Region.
The President of Association, Dr. Ignatius Awinibuno who read the communiqué affirmed the willingness of members to work in partnership with other specialties in the health delivery system and shared a perspective on issues relating medical laboratory science: We wish to reiterate that matters concerning medical laboratory science can best be handled by medical laboratory practitioners and therefore we want to champion the course of our own future.
Dr. Awinibuno tabled other resolutions, pointing out that the government of Ghana must ensure that all the necessary requirement for the implementation of the public-private-partnership (PPP) to strengthen diagnostic laboratory services in the country is not compromised.
GAMLS asked the Government, through the Ministry of Health, to ensure that laboratory facilities and services are available in all public and private health institutions to support quality health care delivery, stressing that the feat is achievable through the full implementation of the National Health Laboratory policy and other related documents.
The communiqué also encouraged all qualified members of GAMLS to join the West African Post Graduate College of Medical Laboratory Sciences as a key step to meeting the increasing needs for specialized medical laboratory services of the client and the nation.
The five-day event focused on Ghanas Health Policy Framework and the Practice of Medical Laboratory Science in the 21st Century.
Story by Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo
