A former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has observed that healthcare professionals who do not go for continuous training courses are dangerous to their patients. “Health care is a learning industry and if you are a doctor and you don’t take part in such training programmes, your value to the patient is a suspect,” he said. Contributing to the topic, “Capacity enhancement for healthcare professionals: The role of ICT,” at the ongoing New Year School at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Akosa said considering the fact that in some hospitals there was only one doctor, ICT could be used for professional development programmes.
