Doctors have roles to play when it comes to providing quality healthcare to patients even with inadequate materials and equipment for their operations.
This assertion has been challenged by some, but the underlining goal is to save lives by upholding the values of the Hippocratic Oath sworn to by doctors.
The first Healthcare Quality GhanaWeb Forum is organized to bring together healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals to talk about quality improvement in healthcare delivery, patient safety and patient satisfaction in Ghana.
Addressing the Forum is the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr. Eli Atikpui who would expatiate on the role of the Medical and Dental Council in ensuring healthcare quality in the country.
He would be speaking at the Forum with Dr. Joseph Boateng, a Physician Specialist and Convener of the Forum, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, Pathologist and social commentator and Dr. Lydia Dzane-Selby, Director of Claims, NHIS/NHIA.
Others are Dr. Daniel Asare, CEO, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Dr. Francis Agyemang-Yeboah, Rev. Veronica Darko, Registrar, Nurses and Midwives Council, Mr. Joseph Kodjo Nsiah Nyoagbe, Registrar, Pharmacy Council, Mr. Samuel Paulos, Founder and Director Gateway 4 Youth and Dr. Edoardo Peterlini, Team Leader, TRAQUE.
Dr. Eli Atikpui is a professional medical practitioner, with 25years of intensive and extensive clinical and managerial work at various levels of the health sector in Ghana. As the registrar of the Medical and Dental Council, he has the responsibility of maintaining standards in the training and practice of medicine and dentistry in Ghana.
He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Management, Planning & Policy from the Nuffield Institute for Health Services, University of Leeds, UK and a Masters of Public Health from the same University. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MB.ChB) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, School of Medical Sciences.
The Forum would be at the Conference Auditorium of the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons in Accra on November 27 and 28.
