Dr Benjamin Aflakpui, Head of the Physician-Assistantship Department of the Central University College (CUC), on Wednesday urged government to introduce the Physician-Assistant Programme in the country's universities, to solve the scarcity problem plaguing the health service, especially in the rural areas. He said it was disheartening that there were nine doctors and 84 nurses per 100,000 people in Ghana, whereas in the United States, it was 166 Physicians and 497 nurses per the same population. Dr Aflakpui was speaking at the launch of the Physicians-Assistants Students Association of Ghana (PASAG) at the Miotso Campus of the CUC near Prampram. The launch had as its theme: "The Role of the Physician-Assistant in the Delivery of Quality and Effective Health Care in Ghana." Dr Eli Atikpui, Registrar of the Ghana Medical and Dental Council, advised medical students to be disciplined whenever they moved to the field to practice their profession. He expressed regret about the breeding of some charlatan medical practitioners, who he said, were tarnishing the good image of the noble profession. "Anyone who does things contrary to the ethics of the Council would have his license withdrawn…," he cautioned. Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, Director of Human Resource of the Ministry of Health said; "Of late the health sector seems to be losing its image of being loving and respectful; people see some health workers as rude, casual in their approach to serve and unprofessional, which in reality should not be the case." He urged them to eschew such unprofessional conducts. Source: GNA