JUST IN: Government releases full list of its achievements in the Health Sector

As part of President Akufo-Addo’s government plans to let Ghanaians know about its developmental projects, the New Patriotic Party has outdoored list of its achievements in the Health Sector since they assume office in January 2017.

The achievements put out by NPP 2020 manifesto includes infrastructure development, employments, payments of salaries, social interventions among others. The document that captures the achievements indicates some of the infrastructural protects are still ongoing while others have been completed. The achievements, according the document takes place under the able leadership of the Health Minister Hon. Kwaku Agyeman Manu.

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Read below the full list of governments achievements at the Health Sector. 

1. Restore Nurse Trainees’ training allowances.
2. Facilitate the early placement of trained nurses, public health personnel, and teachers
   denied employment by the NDC. All nurses denied engagement by the NDC have been
   placed.
3. Free Specialist Post-Graduate medical training commenced in the 2018/19 academic year.
4. Over 300 Ambulances supplied to the National Ambulance Authority (NAS), one in every
   Constituency, under the “One-Constituency, One Ambulance” initiative. NAS has also been provided with a state of the art, digitised Command Centre to field emergency calls and to dispatch ambulances.
5. Establish Centres for Cancers and cover the cost under NHIS. Breast Cancer is already covered by the Scheme. Herceptin, the expensive cancer drug, has now also been added and is paid for by the NHIS.
6. Expand and equip medical schools to train more medical doctors. The Ho Regional Hospital has been converted into a Teaching Hospital.
7. Collaborate with the private sector to establish wellness clinics. This is being piloted with GIZ, under which wellness clinics are being set up within the Dodowa, Legon, and Tema Hospitals.
8. Rescue, Restructure, and Increase Budgetary Allocation to the National Health Insurance
   Scheme (NHIS).
   1. NHIS has undergone restructuring, including digital/mobile membership renewal and real time data authentication. Members increased from 10.6 million to 12.2 million.
   2. NHIS arrears have been reduced from 12 months to 3 months making the scheme sustainable.
9. Pass Legislative Instrument for the implementation of the Mental Health Act Mental Health Legislative Regulations, 2019 (LI 2385) have been brought into effect.
10. Implement national epidemic response system Electronic System for Early Detection has been established.
11. Upgrade all existing district hospitals where they exist, and where they do not, establish
    one.
    1. Ga East District Hospital has been completed and commissioned while 10 polyclinics have been completed and commissioned in the Central Region.
    2. Construction of 5 District Hospitals in Sawla, Tolon, Somanya, Buipe and Wheta, and a
    Polyclinic in Bamboi are ongoing.
    3. We have begun the process to construct 101 hospitals with accommodation for doctors and nurses in Districts without hospitals across the regions.
    4. Construction of a District Hospital at Obuasi, Anyinam Trauma Hospital and Rehabilitation of Enyiresi Government Hospital have been completed.
12. Introduce Drones in the distribution of blood and medicines. Four medical drone centres established and operational in Omenako, Mampong, Walewale and Sefwi Wiawso. As at the end of June, 2020, 79,800 medical products have been delivered to 945 health
    facilities of the service range of the drone centres. In addition, it has delivered over 2,500 CoVID samples to testing centres in Accra (Noguchi) and Kumasi (KCCR).
13. Enhanced treatment of Sickle cell disease. In collaboration with NOVARTIS, we are making available a new drug, Hydroxyurea, which was previously only available in developed countries, to sickle cell patients in Ghana. This is a game changer in the treatment of sickle cell.

SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh