The Health Services Supply Chain Practitioners Association, Ghana (HESSCPAG) has condemned the constant harassment and intimidation of its members who were staff of the Central Medical Stores before it was guttered by fire earlier this year.
According to the President of the Association, Franklin Yamoah Otchere, though the report of the committee of inquiry on the incident had not indicted any former staff, investigative bodies such as the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) were constantly inviting them for questioning.
“Once the committee’s report and recommendations are being implemented, our colleagues should be set free and allowed to work on their own, devoid of any acrimony. The earlier stakeholders and interested parties look into it, the better it will be for all of us”, he stated
Mr. Otchere made the disclosure in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of the opening of the Association’s 8th Annual General Meeting and Continuous Professional Development Programme in Cape Coast, on Thursday.
The three-day event on the theme “Improving the performance of the supply Chain Professional in the Health Care Delivery” is being attended by members of the association including procurement managers, supplier managers and storekeepers drawn from all over the country.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Otchere indicated that, due to lack of recognition and unattractive conditions of service of supply chain professionals in the health service, a number of them were migrating, day in and out to other places where they would be recognized.
He urged members of the association to demonstrate good knowledge of the job, reduce audit queries, be humble and show management that they were up to task all times, to attract the needed treatment they deserved.
Mr. Otchere emphasized the pivotal role the unit played in health care delivery and called on stakeholders and industry players to look at the supply chain profession as a tool as well as a catalyst for nation building and to accord it the needed support.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
