By Amoako Kwame
The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has warned that doctors who refuse postings to rural areas risk being removed from the government payroll by the end of February 2026.
The Minister during a working visit to the University of Ghana College of Health Sciences at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital urged lecturers and medical trainers to encourage newly qualified doctors to accept postings across the country to help tackle vital staff gaps and health issues in the communities.
“I think we must put our heads together to find a solution to this problem. I agree that there are genuine concerns, but our education is highly subsidized, even for fee-paying students. So if the cocoa-producing farmers in my constituency, Sefwi Antobea, have been used to fund your education and you come and tell me that the place is a village, then I beg to differ. By the end of February, we will do validation. If you have not reported, we will take your name out of the payroll “he stated
The new doctors were posted last year with raised concerns about uneven distribution of them nationwide, Mr Akandoh noted that nearly half of the country’s medical doctors were concentrated in the Greater Accra Region.
The Minster of Health on December 2 2025 disclosed that government was also considering incentives to encourage compliance was working with local authorities to make the districts more accommodating for the doctors.
