The Medical and Dental Council has revealed that a significant number of Ghanaian doctors are battling psychiatric conditions and substance abuse, raising concerns about their well-being and the safety of patients.<\/p>\n
According to the Council\u2019s Registrar, Dr Divine Banyubala, about 30% of affected practitioners are struggling with schizophrenia, while others are dealing with personality disorders and depression.<\/p>\n
A worrying number are also battling addictions to substances such as tramadol, morphine, pethidine, and heroin, with some engaging in multiple drug use.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of them have psychiatric conditions. About 30% are struggling with schizophrenia, others have personality disorders, depression, or substance abuse and addiction issues,\u201d Dr Banyubala disclosed.<\/p>\n
To address the situation, he said the Council has set up a Practice Committee, which works through a Health Assessment Panel made up of senior medical professionals. The panel evaluates affected practitioners and recommends appropriate interventions.<\/p>\n
Dr Banyubala noted that early intervention has been highly effective, allowing many practitioners to recover and return to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news is that with early treatment, about 80% can return to full functioning. Unfortunately, a few are too far gone and can never come back\u2014they are beyond redemption,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
He added that doctors who fail to comply with treatment or are deemed unfit to practice have their licenses suspended until they fully recover and can safely resume their duties.<\/p>\n
The Council emphasised that this approach aims to rehabilitate struggling practitioners while protecting patients and safeguarding the integrity of the medical profession.<\/p>\n
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Medical and Dental Council has revealed that a significant number of Ghanaian doctors are battling psychiatric conditions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-30155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}