Mr. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health has said the Ministry secured clearance for 58,191 health workers to be recruited in 2020, and that out of that total, 50,970 were permanent staff and the remaining 7,221 were temporal workers.
He said the government, would continue to expand health promotion programs, scale up disease prevention strategies and improve access to curative and emergency services, through vigorous human resource and health infrastructure development and strengthening of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as well as pre-hospital care with the continuous supply of state-of-the-art ambulance vehicles.
The Minister said this at a four-day maiden virtual health Summit on the theme: “Strengthening the Resilience of Ghana’s Health System to better respond to Emergencies,” had participants from the health sector, academia, civil society, development partners, private sector partners, and the media.
The introduction of the game-changing mobile renewal of membership by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), increased membership of the scheme from 12.29 million in 2019 to 13.96 million people in 2020, while drone services for medicines and medical supplies to deprived areas had remained effective, Mr. Agyeman-Manu said.
President Nana Akufo-Addo, also said the country is beginning to see the positive impact of investments in the health sector.
He opined that efforts at bridging the equality gap in access to quality health care continue to show some improvement adding that significant progress has been recorded in maternal and neonatal mortality reduction.
President Akufo-Addo, however, noted that despite the progress made, the country is faced with a complex burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal and neonatal health conditions, and accidents affecting different ages, gender, and socio-economic status groups.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
