?We?ll ensure quality healthcare delivery?
Posted by on November 30, 2012 at 8:08 am in Politics?
The New Patriotic Party has reiterated its commitment, as contained in its 2012 manifesto, to improve the health status of all people living in Ghana regardless of sex, age, ethnic origin, political affiliation, as it recognizes that good health is an important milestone for economic success.
At a press conference organised at the party?s headquarters in Accra yesterday, a member of the NPP?s health committee, Dr. Nsiah Asare, stated that Ghana?s health system being which is being presided over by the ruling National Democratic Congress is facing serious challenges, with access, quality and utilization of healthcare facilities at an all-time low.
According to Dr. Nsiah Asare the NPP, under Nana Akufo-Addo will improve efficiency of service delivery and will encourage and expand private sector role in the economy and the provision of social services such as health.
The NPP, according Dr. Nsiah Asare, will ensure that every district and region will have a functioning and well equipped designated hospital, as well as construct 3 state of the art National Hospitals to encourage initiate Medical Tourism in the sub-region.
Dr. Nsiah Asare further added that the NPP will improve mental health through training and integration into the clinical and preventive health care system, as this is one of the greatest challenges we have in the health sector is in the area of mental health.
With only five specialist psychiatrists in the public health system, the NPP is set to ?offer incentives to make it attractive for young doctors to specialize in psychiatry and we shall tackle the long standing problem of the disgraceful state of the Psychiatric Hospital in the middle of Accra.?
Dr. Nsiah Asare further assured Ghanaians that the NPP will increase the training of healthcare workers, as well as put in place measures to retain health workers.
?We will expand existing medical schools and establish a National Institute for Biomedical Sciences, where medical students will have their basic sciences and this will make it possible to increase the intake of the medical schools. Thereafter students can move to accredited hospitals for outside the Teaching hospitals to do their clinical studies,? he said.
Some of the other measures the next NPP government will introduce to improve healthcare delivery, Dr. Nsiah Asare, said will include: increasing health spending in real terms every year; making dental care accessible to the poor and vulnerable; refocusing capital investment on primary and community services; and introducing e-Health policy to make access to healthcare and health tips easily accessible to consumers via the internet and mobile phones
He stressed that the NPP will borrow from the experiences of India and elsewhere to become the masters of this lucrative industry.
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Source: http://www.theghanaianjournal.com/2012/11/30/well-ensure-quality-healthcare-delivery/
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