Prof. Ernest Yorke, President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), has described his appointment to the Board of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) as a call to national duty.
Prof. Yorke was nominated to the NHIA Board in May this year following the revocation of Anne Sansa Daly’s appointment by President John Dramani Mahama following concerns about her lack of a valid licence to practice medicine in Ghana.
Speaking in an interview on Citi Eyewitness News on Monday November 17, Prof Yorke noted that “I think for me it is a call to duty and when national duty calls I think it is a privilege and I don’t think it would have been good for me to turn it down.”
“It is unfortunate what happened happened but I think they needed to replace with somebody everybody can vouch for and I am glad that that lot fell on me and I have been since I was appointed.”
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