DISTRICT DIRECTORS CRITICAL TO HEALTH CARE-DDHSG

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Dr. Osei-Kuffuor Afreh-Chm of DDHSG
The District Directors of Health Services Group says it is very proud of the contribution of the district health directorates to the significant successes chalked in the country’s health delivery system since 1988, even in the midst of serious difficult working environment. 

The Group is even more satisfied with the performance of the directorates during the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in Ghana’s neighbouring countries that posed a greater risk to the nation in recent times.

 They worked very hard and collaborated with all partners to ensure an active surveillance system that ensure prompt national response to all reported suspected cases. 

Similarly, the country has made significant progress in the crusade against certain communicable and non-communicable diseases such as polio, measles, neonatal tetanus as well as maternal and infant mortality due to the critical role that district health directorates in disease surveillance, monitoring and national immunization programmes over the years. 

The Chairman of the Group, Dr. Osei-Kuffuor Afreh made the observation in his address to participants at the Group’s 23rd Annual General Meeting in Kumasi.

Dr. Afreh noted with pride that for seven consecutive years, Ghana has not recorded any case of neonatal tetanus-related death, while the World Health Organization has also declared the country a Guinea worm-free nation. 

Dr. Afreh disclosed also that, even though Ghana was not able to meet all the Millennium Development Goals on health, the country has been able to make some significant progress in some of the areas especially infant and maternal mortality.

 "In spite of the critical role of the district directorates in healthcare in the country, particularly in the remote areas, they are still faced with poor working conditions like lack of office accommodation, vehicles, erratic flow of funds, bad cold chain systems such that some of the district directorates have now resorted to using ordinary refrigerators to store certain drugs in the face of the energy problems as well as difficulty in cost recovery due to the inadequate funds by the National Health Insurance Scheme", Dr. Afreh emphasized.



He therefore appealed to the government and all other stakeholders in the healthcare chain to increase their support since the directors of health services are still more than committed to make particularly primary healthcare accessible to all Ghanaians.

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