Professor Dr. Ernest Yorke, Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), says they need consistent and reliable electricity supply.

He explained that the current unstable power supply significantly disrupts their work, posing a serious threat to public health.

Dr Yorke underscored the frontline role of healthcare workers, particularly doctors, in preserving health and preventing unnecessary deaths.

In an interview on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on April 2, he emphasised that “What we need is a reliable, stable, and predictable power supply so that the nation's health is not jeopardised.”

He stated that frequent unexpected power outages greatly disrupt their work, leading to widespread complaints among healthcare facilities and practitioners.

“Let me take you through a journey of how this impacts the work that we do. So you start with patient consultation, and generally, now most institutions in Ghana use electronic systems, especially those in the government space, so if the electricity goes off and the servers are down, we have to wait agonisingly.

"Patients wait for so long and start murmuring and think we are not up to the task and beyond that, if patients are admitted to the ward, you can imagine what will happen,” he added. 

Furthermore, he stressed the critical importance of healthcare providers being prepared to respond swiftly to changes in patient's conditions to prevent avoidable deaths.

“The consequences are far-reaching on what we do especially preserving health and preventing death, so you can even imagine going to the end of this value chain and that is the last stop which is the mortuary because without electricity that is what will happen,” he said.