The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has summoned a Senior Medical Officer, Dr Mockshell Esinam Sunu, to explain an alleged GH¢341,229 unearned salary.
Dr Sunu, who served at the Takoradi Hospital, is alleged to have received salaries between September 2023 and August 2025 despite failing to travel to Germany for an approved study leave with pay.
Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee, Chairperson Abena Osei-Asare directed the Ministry of Health to engage the Ghana Medical Association to facilitate Dr Sunu’s appearance before the Committee.
The Committee wants the doctor to explain why she remained in Ghana and continued receiving her salary despite being granted study leave to travel to Germany.
“We want where the doctor is. It is just a call to the Ghana Medical Association and they will locate where the doctor is. We want to have the doctor right here to explain to us why she told the facility she was going away to study only for her to be away for how long to still be in this country, taking salary without doing the needful,” she said.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service assured the Committee that the Service would work with the Ministry of Health and the Medical and Dental Council to trace Dr Sunu and produce her before the Committee.
“Madam Chair, the Ministry and Ghana Health Service will work and liaise with the Medical and Dental Council to trace the doctor and get her back here to respond.”
