Time to critically manage Ghana's talent pool and fiercely protect the built capacity.
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Not to downplay their important achievements and brilliant talents.
I find it odd that the only profession Ghana science students know is medicine.
That is very very odd. The best way is for the top science students to be distributed
across all the major science based professions. That strengthens the practice of medicine itself and brings more progress to the society.
Majority of these doctors run away after graduating because of their love for money over service to society. The society that paid for their expensive training.
It's important that medical training in the public Universities is provided to bonded students only. Students bonded to serve Ghana for their entire career. When they travel for further studies they should be bonded to return immediately after training.
This is because their training is exceptionally expensive and those providing the training and society that supports the training must benefit fully for their success.
Those who want the freedom to practice their careers outside Ghana should either pay full fees or refund their scholarships in full with interest. That is if they leave within 20 years of graduating.
Don’t keep saying Ghana dieee, Ghana dieee, Ghana dieee.
When you were 6 years old and knew nothing, it took the same great teachers, Ghana and your parents to nurture you to become a professional. Think deeply.
Global experience is wonderful and resources from Ghanaians earning higher income from abroad is good. But if our collective attitudes continue to impoverish our nation and keep sending her management into the hands of the IMF repeatedly for 18 times in the last 60 years then we all have very important questions to answer.
Certainly the remittances of all the Ghanaian professionals outside is not making any real difference. It’s just a patch of band aid over a dirty wound.
Check this picture of sharply rising Ghanaian graduates traveling abroad.
We need to start creating a system to balance and manage our talent pool. Many have traveled over the past decades and many have returned to build institutions in Ghana, it is no longer dry and desperate. We need to manage and protect the limited capacity we have created and leap to the next level of building our own miracles.
The rate of exodus continues unabated and no one is asking the important questions. Where are the mothers of this nation? And where are the fathers of this nation? Why do we suffer so much dysfunction even though we have many rich resources? Resources that for centuries attracted marauding and hostile visitors to our shores.
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Q&A Section:
Q1. What if you bond us and we just resign and refuse to work?
A1.
They didn’t teach you anything about ethical reasoning and moral principles.
After SHS when you knew next to nothing, would you have appreciated comments like yours at the medical school interview?
You and your trainers who have the knowledge and experience to work for the highest bidder? And yet they found it in themselves to remember who they are and where they were born.
You also need to do the same.
Q2: Currently 50% of medical students pay full fees.
A2:
Those who pay for themselves.
YES.
NO one can be stopped from traveling but it should be organized to prevent dysfunction.
Those who bear the burden of running those schools get a worse deal overall than their trainees.
So as long as the some people have sacrificed to train you, care ought to taken to NOT destroy the built capacity. Most medical schools require experienced students to support the training of their juniors.
