Medical and Dental Council — Ghana's healthcare regulator that licenses practitioners, investigates professional misconduct, and verifies practitioner credentials via QR code system.
… Speaking on JoyFM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, August 20, Registrar for the Medical and Dental Council, Dr Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, explained that AMCOA brings together medical regulatory authorities across the continent to strengthen the regulation of doctors, dentists and …
… The 28th AMCOA Annual Conference is scheduled for August 23 to 27, 2026, at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra under the theme: “Regulation for Safer Communities Towards Universal Health Coverage.” Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, said …
One hundred and eighteen newly qualified doctors and dentists were yesterday inducted into the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) after successful completion of their medical training and mandatory housemanship. …
… The four-day conference will take place in Accra from August 24 to 27, 2026, on the theme: “Responsive Regulation for Safer Communities and Better Health Outcomes.” Speaking at the official media launch in Accra, the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), Dr Divine Ba …
The Medical and Dental Council (MDC) has raised concerns about mental health challenges among healthcare professionals, including burnout, substance abuse and conditions that may affect practitioners’ ability to safely provide care. …
The Medical and Dental Council (MDC) is set to introduce a real-time practitioner verification system featuring QR codes and mandatory identification tags as part of efforts to eliminate quack practitioners and improve patient safety in Ghana’s healthcare system. …
The Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), Dr Divine Banyubala, has disclosed that the council is currently investigating 31 disciplinary cases involving 46 medical practitioners, with nearly two-thirds of the complaints relating to allegations of medical negligence. …
The Ministry of Health has announced the opening of the recruitment process for the 36th batch of Medical Officers and Dentists who have completed their housemanship and have been duly verified by the Medical and Dental Council. …
The Association of Medical Councils of Africa will host its 28th Annual Conference at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra from August 23–27, 2026, bringing together African and international medical regulators and healthcare stakeholders. The conference, themed "Regulation for Safer Communities Towards Universal Health Coverage," will focus on strengthening regulation of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals to ensure quality and safe healthcare access.
The Association of Medical Councils of Africa will host its 28th Annual Conference at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra from August 23–27, 2026, bringing together African and international medical regulators and healthcare stakeholders. The conference, themed "Regulation for Safer Communities Towards Universal Health Coverage," will focus on strengthening regulation of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals to ensure quality and safe healthcare access.
The Association of Medical Councils of Africa will hold its 28th Annual Conference in Accra from August 23 to 27, 2026, to discuss health worker migration, patient safety, and the regulation of healthcare professionals. The Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council said the conference will focus on strengthening coordination among regulatory authorities as healthcare professionals increasingly move across borders.
118 newly qualified doctors and dentists were inducted into the Medical and Dental Council after completing their medical training and mandatory housemanship. The inductees graduated from the University of Ghana, KNUST, and the University of Cape Coast, and the Health Minister urged them to take up their assigned postings without delay to strengthen primary healthcare delivery across the country.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council says it cannot begin disciplinary proceedings against nurses implicated in Charles Amissah's death until it receives the official report from the investigating committee. The Registrar stated the Council received only a directive from the Ministry of Health but not the committee's findings needed to initiate discipline.
Ghana will host the 28th Annual Scientific Conference of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa from August 24 to 27, 2026, bringing together more than 300 health regulators, policymakers and medical professionals from across Africa to discuss responsive regulation for safer communities and better health outcomes.
The Medical and Dental Council has raised concerns about burnout, substance abuse, and mental health challenges among healthcare professionals, disclosing that it has handled cases where practitioners' mental wellbeing affected their fitness to practise. The council established health assessment panels to evaluate affected practitioners and agreed to conduct a baseline study to assess mental health challenges among health professionals in Ghana.
Ghana's Medical and Dental Council is implementing a real-time practitioner verification system using QR codes and mandatory identification tags to enable patients and health facilities to instantly verify whether healthcare professionals are duly licensed, part of efforts to eliminate quack practitioners and clarify professional titles.
The Medical and Dental Council is investigating 31 disciplinary cases involving 46 medical practitioners, with 64% of complaints relating to medical negligence. The council also has two cases each at the High Court and Circuit Court, and received 35 new complaints in the first quarter and five in the second quarter.
Ghana's Ministry of Health is recruiting the 36th batch of Medical Officers and Dentists who have completed housemanship. Applications open Wednesday, July 8, 2026, with a deadline of July 15, 2026, for posting to the Ghana Health Service, CHAG, Ahmadiyya Health Services, and the Mental Health Authority.
A Business & Financial Times contributor reflects on his mother's 2013 emergency-room experience at Korle-Bu, where they were turned away due to lack of beds, and draws a parallel to the recent death of Charles Amissah, arguing that Ghana's healthcare system continues to fail patients in similar circumstances.
The Governments of Ghana and Jamaica have launched a recruitment drive to attract qualified Ghanaian nurses and medical specialists for positions in Jamaica's healthcare sector, including specialist nursing roles and fellowship-level medical positions, with applicants required to meet regulatory requirements and possess at least two years of post-basic working experience.
The Ghana Association of Radiologists has called on government and health sector stakeholders to invest in modern diagnostic infrastructure, including CT scans and MRI machines, across the country to improve disease detection and treatment. The association's president noted that many health facilities lack access to high-end imaging modalities.
The Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council has expressed concern over increasing malpractice and professional misconduct complaints against health professionals in Ghana, attributing the growing backlog of cases to declining adherence to professional ethics and accountability. He urged practitioners to uphold professionalism and stressed that the Council would independently investigate all complaints brought before it.
The Medical and Dental Council has reported a surge in complaints of medical negligence, malpractice, and professional misconduct against healthcare practitioners, with a backlog of disciplinary cases indicating declining professional ethics and patient-centred care in Ghana's health facilities. Chairman Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa noted that patients are increasingly reporting poor hospital treatment to the council.
The Ghana Medical Association president has questioned the use of "medical negligence" in an investigative committee's report on engineer Charles Amissah's death, arguing that such determinations exceed the authority of a non-judicial body. The committee found that delays in treatment and repeated referrals between health facilities, rather than the accident itself, contributed to the 29-year-old's death.
The Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana has cautioned against focusing blame on individual healthcare workers in the death of Charles Amissah, arguing that the "no bed syndrome" is a systemic failure rooted in underinvestment, overcrowded facilities, weak referral systems, and inadequate staffing rather than frontline clinicians' fault.
The President of the Ghana Medical Association has cautioned the public not to interpret preliminary committee findings of possible negligence by health workers as proof of guilt, arguing the Charles Amissah death case reflects systemic healthcare challenges rather than individual culpability. He stressed that only formal disciplinary processes can establish guilt and determine sanctions.
Parliament's Health Committee chairman says the investigative report into engineer Charles Amissah's death should warn health professionals to uphold ethical standards. The latest report named individuals believed to be involved, unlike previous reports that focused on institutions, and the Health Minister has directed referral to the Medical and Dental Council for disciplinary action.
A committee report into the death of Charles Amissah from severe arm injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on 6 February 2026 concludes his death was avoidable through basic interventions including wound compression, fluid resuscitation and blood transfusion. The report documents systemic failures across multiple institutions—ambulance services, triage systems, emergency departments, clinical leadership and professional ethics—as the patient arrived alive at three major health facilities but was failed at each critical stage of trauma response.
Dr Eli Atukpui, former Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council, has called on the Health Minister to formally refer the report on Charles Amissah's death to the Medical and Dental Council to initiate disciplinary action against any culpable practitioners. He noted that the process could begin once the Minister forwards the report's recommendations to the Council, and that the ministerial committee chairman is also the MDC chairman, making the process straightforward.
The Health Minister has assured that all recommendations from the Akosa Committee report investigating Charles Amissah's death will be fully implemented. Amissah, a 29-year-old engineer, died after a hit-and-run in 2024 when multiple hospitals denied him treatment due to lack of beds, prompting calls for emergency healthcare reforms.
Following a committee report on engineer Charles Amissah's death after a hit-and-run in Accra, the Health Minister has directed disciplinary action against several health professionals at Police Hospital, Greater Accra Regional Hospital, and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for failing to provide care. The committee found serious lapses in emergency response and concluded the death was avoidable.
The Akosa Committee investigating the February 2026 death of a 29-year-old engineer has identified multiple health professionals across three hospitals for allegedly failing to provide timely emergency care, and also raised concerns about ambulance personnel lacking critical training in life support and trauma response.
Parliament's Health Committee Chairman Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane has raised concerns over the account of a pregnant woman's death at Kasoa Mother and Child Hospital on April 26, questioning how the facility could admit a referred labour case without a bed and stating that standard protocol requires a medical doctor, not just a midwife, for such cases.