To: The Minister of Health.

ISSUES WITH HEALTH PROFESSIONS REGULATORY BODIES ACT, 2013 (ACT 857) AND HEALTH LABORATORY PRACTICE IN GHANA

I wish to bring to your attention that, Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC) invited the Medical Scientists Society of Ghana (MSSG) to a meeting on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, to discuss issues pertaining to the registration of Bio-Medical and Clinical Scientists as allied health professionals .

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In View or my position as a concerned student who feels his rights to practice has been curtailed, I bring the following observations to your attention:

1. The AHPC is unfortunately excluding Bio-Medical and Clinical Scientists from Licensure exams in a way that undermines international best practice in clinical science and laboratory medicine. This will spell a potential disaster for health care delivery in Ghana in the future!
2. The AHPC is implementing Part I of the HEALTH PROFESSIONS REGULATORY BODIES ACT, 2013 (ACT 857) in a manner that is designed to stop scientists with backgrounds in Biochemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology, Human Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Clinical Immunology, Molecular Genetics, Haematology, and Laboratory Medicine from obtaining license to work in health laboratories. This is an extremely dangerous action that will destroy the foundations for ensuring optimal health care, research and innovation in Ghana’s health sector.
3. In its effort to strengthen the National Health Laboratory System in Ghana, the MOH and GHS have facilitated the development of the under listed policy documents:
   a. National Health Laboratory Policy
   b. National Health Laboratory Accreditation Policy and
   C. National Health Laboratory Strategic
   Plan However, the adoption and implementation of these documents have been suspended because of objections by various key stakeholders unhappy about the lack of broader stakeholder consultations.

These documents contain issues that will harm Health Laboratory practice in Ghana, and take it off course from international best practice. This will make our country less competitive globally, and compromise our ability to lead in the health sector in Africa.

On this note, I wish to recommend a comprehensive stakeholder approach in resolving the issues raised.

Yours faithfully,

AMPONG SAMUEL KWAME
GHABSA CKT UTAS, GENERAL SECRETARY.
ASPIRANT, GHABSA NATIONAL SECRETARY
( 0591857752).