Nine District Public Hospitals currently operating without doctors.

The hospitals are being manned by nurses and medical assistants. The hospitals are in the Half-Assini, Asankragwa and Bibiani in the Western Region Drobo in the Brong Ahafo Region, Sandema and Bongo in the Upper East Region, Jirapa in the Upper West Region, Bimbilla in the Northern Region and Ajumako in the Central Region.

Dr. Ken Sagoe, the Ghana Health Service’s Director of Human Development said this in an exclusive interview in Accra last described the situation as “peccaries