The Ghana Association Of Certified Registered Anesthetics has said, it is laying down its tools to fight and safeguard the lives of the Ghanaian people as far as health and safety of Ghanaians are concerned.
The association, by far, is arguing that a lot of mishaps are happening within the health sector which needs to be addressed and that, the fight is strictly meant for the Ghanaian people.
It is alleging that the Dental and Medical Council which is supposed to facilitate and regulate and safeguard their profession and operations of the Anesthetics is trying any means to suppress the profession.
“Our strike is specifically to safeguard the lives and safety of the Ghanaian people, and so this fight is for the people, and if they know what is going on, they’d rather fight for us. The medical and dental council are rather oppressing us but they are supposed to regulate us and guide us, why are they slashing our curriculum in the various training schools”?
According to the Public Relations Officer of the GACRA, Mr. Seth McAndoh, the association has on a number of occasions pushed for engagements with the Council but to no avail.
He said, until their recent aggressive engagements, the council introduced Harmonization of Curriculum, which subsequently resulted in slashing of their curriculum retrospectively.
Seth McAndoh revealed that, the Harmonization curriculum will belittle the quality of the educational knowledge they receive in their respective training schools, adding that, students who will be receiving education will be substandard, hence it cannot compare itself to the international market.
Responding to questions on why the Medical and Dental Council and the Anesthetics at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Korle Bu Teaching hospital will likely suppress the Certified registered Anesthetics, he said, these people behind this are people who are also Anesthetics and they are doing this for few people who are concentrated in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Korle Bu Teaching hospital over the interest of the whole country.
“These people are Anesthetics and they are doing this to favor some few people within Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. They’re doing this limit our operations”
He revealed that, before one becomes an Anesthetics, the person must either be a doctor or a nurse or someone who is within the health facility but not a doctor. He said, there are differences in Anesthetics, namely, Doctor Anesthetics, physician Anesthetics, anesthesiologist and the certified registered Anesthetics.
“There are different kinds of Anesthetics, we have the doctor Anesthetics, physician Anesthetics, anesthesiologist and the certified registered Anesthetics. You see, one may become an Anesthetics through being a doctor, a nurse or someone within the health facility”.
McAndoh explained that, once one decide to become a Anesthetics, there’s no educational difference what the doctor or nurse will learn to become Anesthetics.
He said, the main motive of suppressing the certified registered is to allow other people become more superior than the certified registered Anesthetics, hence the slashing of the curriculum for the certified registered Anesthetics in various training centers.
Meanwhile, the association had Initially opposed the idea of addressing the certified registered Anesthetics as physician assistant in which the matter had earlier referred to the Parliamentary select Committee on Health, which the Committee made it lawful in 2013 that, the physician assistants shall be referred to as Certified and registered Anesthetics but according McAndoh, the medical and dental Council has continuously violated the parliamentary ruling and still referred to them as physician assistant.
