The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Ghana is developing a comprehensive primary healthcare package for her citizens, which would mean better health outcomes, lower costs, and healthier families and communities.
President Akufo-Addo made this known when he delivered a statement at the launch of the “Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All”, on Tuesday, 24th September 2019, on the sidelines of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Addressing the gathering, which included German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, the President indicated that “we have launched the world’s largest medical drone delivery service to some fifteen (15) health facilities, as part of the first phase of the service.”
President Akufo-Addo, who, together with the German Chancellor and the Norwegian Prime Minister, is one of the initiators of the Global Action Plan, explained that the Plan is to help urge countries and the World Health Organization to co-ordinate a process of developing an action plan to propel progress towards realizing SDG No. 3.
The plan, he explained, is a historic commitment by twelve (12) partner agencies, who are working together towards achieving SDG 3, i.e “ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages”.
“We agree, and are confident that the execution of the four (4) strategies outlined under the Global Action Plan and the seven (7) accelerators, i.e. sustainable financing, primary health care, community and civil society engagement, determinants of health, R&D, innovation and access, data and digital health, innovative programming in fragile and vulnerable states and for disease outbreak response, will strengthen the implementation of the Plan,” the President said.
Ghana, according to the W.H.O, is already well advanced in the performance of some of the accelerators.
“In the area of sustainable financing, we have revived our National Health Insurance Scheme, which, for a minimum subscription, guarantees access to a wide array of healthcare services,” President Akufo-Addo said.
He continued, “We are also leveraging the use of technology, with some of our healthcare facilities, before the end of the year, going paperless. Ghana has also deployed an electronic platform for logistics management information systems for the distribution of drug and non-drug commodities in the country.”
Nonetheless, in Ghana, based on the Global Action Plan and the Universal Health Coverage 2030 Compact, the President told the gathering that Ghana is re-strategizing on her healthcare architecture, and, thus, also urged all countries to examine critically their delivery chains and map them out so as to identify the weak links and rectify them, adapt the Plan to their local contexts, and adopt people-centred approaches to the realisation of the Plan.
“The Global Action Plan should not be a moment, it has to be a movement. My Government is committed to improving access to essential and quality health services through the provision of the necessary health infrastructure, equipment and logistics, including the deployment of appropriate technology, as part of our drive to attaining Universal Health Coverage,” President Akufo-Addo said.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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My goodness !! Ghana having the best drone medical service in the world? Ghana is gradually becoming a laughing stock all because of this President. Which independent research organization assessed our drone services and rated it as the best in the world? This self acclaimed achievement is the greatest joke of the century. Basic and And High Schools are yet to be provided with text books based on the new curriculum:- yet Nana is touting the messy free SHS as a model for adoption in Africa. Only time will tell.
When Buhari was talking about serious fight against corruption, our president was celebrating drones. My goodness! What have we brought to ourselves? Eugene Arhin and Asante bediatuo are messing our president up. It would have been better if he told the gathering that he signed a white paper to exonerate someone who slapped an MP in his country.
Drones without adequate health facility how will it achieve "better health outcomes, lower costs, and healthier families and communities".
Value for money?
I thought he was going to say Ghana is having largest health system in the worse, he went talk about drones. Kweku Ananse! Wasting our resources and being proud of it. The drones money could have completed the mahama hospital you have left rotting.
I think there should be a research on, 'How to Hate a President'. Awards will be given for best research papers.
Also,it appears you are blind and deaf or you do not understand what the President said at the forum.***barred word*** if you have nothing to say!
adwo, you wish he is a lair.
Lair