Imagine a 2–5 hour railway linking Accra to Kumasi, Ho, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Sunyani, and Tamale — fewer road crashes, less traffic, reduced truck pressure, stronger economic growth, and longer-lasting roads.
Faster, safer travel for people and goods.
Lower transport costs
Lots of paragraphs, but nothing to show that the President’s directive was accompanied by concrete measures to improve the hospital’s operational capacity and ensure that people seeking emergency care are not turned away.
You cannot impose an operating standard by fiat on an already strained healthcare facility, fail to provide the resources, personnel, and systems needed to meet that standard, and then expect miracles. Healthcare outcomes are shaped by capacity, not administrative fiat.
Ghanaian doctors move to better-resourced health systems and perform exceptionally well. That should tell us something. The problem is often not the competence or commitment of healthcare workers. Fix the systemic challenges, provide the necessary support, and stop treating individual healthcare workers as convenient scapegoats for broader institutional failures.
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Cannulation is a nursing skill
Stop hiding behind it’s the doctor’s job. That mindset is why many nurses are terrible at cannulation