Accra, Sept. 17, GNA - Ghana's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland has advised Ghanaian professionals, particularly medical practitioners, to make their research findings available to the people to enable them to adopt and focus more on healthier lifestyles and practices.

Mr. Annan Cato gave this advice when he addressed Ghanaian doctors and dentists at the Second Annual Congress of Ghanaian Doctors and Dentists Association in London, a according to a statement issued by the Ghana High Commission in London on Wednesday said. The Ghanaian Doctors and Dentists Association is a charitable organisation formed two years ago aimed at providing a platform for them to support themselves in times of need as well as to contribute to the health sector back in Ghana.

Mr Cato, who was obviously impressed with the quality of presentations by the resource persons including Dr Dwomoa Adu, a renowned Renal Surgeon, advised the association to endeavour to invite and actively involve members of the Ghanaian community in the UK in their annual congresses because the days when VIPs detached themselves from the ordinary Ghanaian were over. He praised the association for sending 12 doctors to Ghana recently in their effort to support the government to take care of the medical needs of the people.

Mr. Cato said the Government was determined that Ghana attained a middle income status by 2015 and entreated all to join in efforts at realising that objective. He said the British Government had donated A342.5 million to Ghana to support free maternal care for pregnant women who attend public hospitals nationwide for the next five years, after which the Government of Ghana would be solely responsible for the sustenance of the programme.

Mr Cato reminded Ghanaians domiciled in the UK and Ireland that Ghanaians would be going to the polls in December to elect a president and parliamentarians for the next four years and hoped that at the end of it all, those elected would be are the choice of the people. Dr Anthony Annan, President of the association, advised his colleagues in the Diaspora to continue to contribute to the development of the health system in Ghana, with emphasis on reaching out to the poor.