{
  "id": 12903715,
  "title": "PAC summons doctor over GH¢341,229 salary paid despite failing to proceed on study leave",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/pac-summons-doctor-over-gh-341-229-salary-paid-despite-failing-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T16:18:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "3News",
    "slug": "3news",
    "url": "https://3news.com/news/pac-summons-doctor-over-gh-341-229-salary-paid-despite-failing-to-proceed-on-study-leave"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has called upon Dr Mockshell Esinam Sunu, a Senior Medical Officer from Takoradi Hospital, to account for a salary of GH¢341,229 that she received while not fulfilling her study leave obligations in Germany. Dr Sunu, who worked between September 2023 and August 2025, allegedly received her salaries despite being in Ghana. The Committee's Chairperson, Abena Osei-Asare, instructed the Ministry of Health to collaborate with the Ghana Medical Association to facilitate Dr Sunu's presence before the Committee.\n\nThe Committee seeks clarification on why Dr Sunu remained in Ghana and continued to receive her salary when she was granted study leave to travel to Germany. Osei-Asare stated, \"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.\"\n\nThe Director-General of the Ghana Health Service assured the Committee that the Service would cooperate with the Ministry of Health and the Medical and Dental Council to locate and bring Dr Sunu before the Committee. She stated, \"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.\"",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [
    "Public Accounts Committee summons Dr Sunu for salary inquiry",
    "Dr Sunu received GH¢341,229 while not on study leave in Germany",
    "Ministry of Health to collaborate with Ghana Medical Association"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}