Koforidua, Sept. 16, GNA - The Ministry of Health would employ 5,400 health workers who would be graduating this year, despite the constraints facing the Ministry. Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyirah, Director of Human Resource of the Ministry disclosed this at a send-off party organized for him and four other staff by the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the Ghana Health Service in Koforidua.

Dr Appiah-Denkyirah, who was the immediate past Eastern Regional Director of Health Service, was transferred to the region in 2002 from the Ashanti Region and he served in the Eastern Region until his new appointment this year.

He advised Regional and District Directors of Health Services to keep informing their political heads about efforts that the service was making to enable their regions and districts to meet the Millennium Goals of the country. Mr Kwadwo Afram Asiedu, Eastern Regional Minister, congratulated Dr Appiah-Denkyirah on his new appointment and expressed the hope that with his rich experience he would excel in his new position. Dr Obeng Apori, Medical Director of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, who chaired the function called on leaders to see problems that confront them as opportunities and rather help find solutions to them, so that at the end their term of office, their organizations would be better off.