Member of Parliament for the Mpraeso, Davis Opoku Ansah, has called on the government to take a look at providing and upgrading the various health and educational facilities in the country.

He believes that this forms part of one of the ways to ensure the retention of health experts in the country.

He expressed about the increasing exodus of Ghanaian-trained nurses and teachers.

“Most of these advanced countries (UK, Canada, USA) are giving away visas for skilled workers, and our trained teachers and nurses are leaving for these countries for free without the state getting anything in return, and that is affecting the workforce in this country.”

“But the most important thing is the equipment they need to work because if you post a nurse to a health facility and they go there and can’t work because there is no equipment, they become frustrated. So it will be important for us to improve the facilities for them to work,” Davis Opoku Ansah said on Rainbow Radio Accra.

In the last couple of years, Ghana has seen an increased exodus of trained nurses and teachers abroad in search of greener pastures due to unfavourable working conditions.

Davis Opoku Ansah said this when he presented health logistics to ten CHPS compounds in Kwahu South Municipality.

Some of the equipment he donated includes delivery beds, hospital beds, drip stands, scales, BP apparatus, and more.