Management and Staff of Radio Ghana in Cape Coast have met to discuss the need for an HIV/AIDS Work Place Policy. This is in recognition of the Ghana AIDS Commission’s directive that Organizations and Institutions initiate Work Place Polices on HIV/AIDS to cater for the needs of their workers.
Resource persons at the forum emphasized the need for Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as a state media organization whose mandate is to educate and inform the public to have such a policy, so they can educate other organizations to follow suit.The Acting Regional Director of Radio Ghana Central, George Sackey, explained that the future and development of every organization largely depends on its human resource hence the importance to ensure that its staff is secured and protected against every eventuality.
This is especially so because of the high cost of training professionals. The Central Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator, Samuel Yeinyi noted that, the strategic frame work policy mandates every organization to have such a work place policy.
He said institutions and organizations like the Electricity Corporation Ghana and the Central Regional Hospital have set the pace and urged GBC as a leading media organization to have such a policy for its workers. A staff of GBC, Philip Baidoo who was a focal person noted that everyone stands the risk of acquiring the disease, hence the need for workers to be protected and assured of their security by their employers.
