The Director-Basic of the Ghana Well being Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has stated a complete of 420 well being centres are being upgraded into Mannequin Well being Centres to reinforce high quality major well being care.
The Mannequin Well being Centres, situated in chosen communities throughout the nation, will present 24-hour simply accessible and reasonably priced healthcare companies to healthcare seekers, notably in rural communities, to scale back the incidence of maternal and baby mortality and morbidity.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye stated this on Wednesday, August 22, 2024, on the opening session of the thirty first Annual Basic Convention of District Administrators of Well being Providers (DDHS) Group held at Ada within the Larger Accra Area.
The annual convention serves as a discussion board for the heads of district well being directorates to take inventory, and share concepts and finest practices to be able to enhance the nation’s well being outcomes.
This yr’s convention was on the theme: “Accelerating in direction of Common Well being Protection with a Strengthened Main Well being Care by way of the Networks of Follow Method: The Position of DDHS and Stakeholders”.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye stated out of the proposed 420 mannequin well being centres, 153 of them throughout the 16 areas of Ghana had been recognized, including that contractors would quickly be deployed to the websites.
He stated the service had recruited 250 new Doctor Assistants who can be deployed to the mannequin well being centres to supply reasonably priced major healthcare companies to notably rural dwellers to propel Ghana in direction of the attainment of the Common Well being Protection goal in 2030.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye stated common well being care was not merely a worldwide aspiration, however a nationwide crucial for Ghana, stressing that in Ghana about half of the inhabitants couldn’t rely on having direct entry to well being companies.
Embrace change
He stated with barely six years to achieve Common Well being Protection, there was an pressing want for service suppliers to start to do issues in a different way by unifying programmes, companions and stakeholders in our ahead march in direction of higher well being protection utilizing the community of apply strategy (NOP).
The NOP goals to make sure the supply of satisfactory well being infrastructure, tools, skilled and compelled workforce to offer excessive ranges of care, strengthen referral linkages and facilitate useful resource sharing amongst fashionable well being centres.
He assured members of GHS’s steady provision of human sources and tools in any respect ranges of healthcare companies to enhance major healthcare throughout the nation and likewise charged them to indicate management by rationalising allotted sources to strengthen the organisation’s service supply capability.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye stated as a part of GHS’s dedication to well being info techniques, the service had invested in expertise to facilitate real-time knowledge sharing and telemedicine, amongst others. To that finish, well being services throughout the nation have been related to fibre techniques to reinforce digital well being improvements.
He additional revealed plans by the service to introduce a Nationwide Boat Service to offer major well being care to folks in riverine communities in hard-to-reach districts.
Situations of Service
The President of the DDHS Group, Dr Justice Thomas Sevugu, reiterated the decision for higher circumstances of service for District Well being Administrators and improved infrastructure on the district stage since they had been the implementers of nationwide well being insurance policies and programmes.
The Larger Accra Regional Director of Well being Providers, Dr Akosua Agyeiwaa Owusu-Sarpong, reminded the members of their function within the implementation of the NOP inside their districts and urged them to prioritise the implementation of the coverage in direction of the achievement of common well being protection.
Current on the opening session had been the Mankralo of the Ada Conventional Space, Nene Agudey Obitchere III, who chaired the operate, the District Chief Govt of Ada East, Sarah Dugbakie Pobee; Coordinator, Well being Techniques, World Well being Organisation Ghana Workplace, Dr Sofonias Asrat Gatachew, and the Director of Coverage Planning, Monitoring and Analysis Division (PPMED) of the MOH, Dr Alberta Biritwum.