ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE POOR IN RURAL AREAS, NORTHERN GHANA-MINISTER OF HEALTH

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The Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia has observed that despite the appreciable increase in healthcare facilities as well as improved access to care and general health services by the people in recent times, access still remain poor in some parts of the country especially in rural areas and the northern part of Ghana in particular. 

In view of this, the Community-based Health Planning and Services, CHPS policy is being a review to strategically position the concept to increase access towards universal coverage. 

Mr. Segbefia made this known in an address read for him at a grand durbar at Offinso Maase in the Ashanti region to commemorate 50 years of the establishment of the Saint Patrick’s Nursing and Midwifery Training College. 

The celebration was on the theme: “Building a Healthy Nation through Quality Nursing and Midwifery Care”. 

The Minister of Health said also that the Health Sector Medium Term Development Plan spanning 2014 to 2017 has adequately outlined clear strategies to improve human resource capacity development with the other aim of increasing production while ensuring retention of trained health professionals and their equitable distribution in line with local and international best practices.

 Mr. Sgbefia stressed that the Health Ministry will not renege on its role in developing innovative policies to inject more dynamism ton engender effectiveness and efficiency into the overall governance machinery of training institutions. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon emphasized the fact that good health which is critical to all countries the world over, is a pre-requisite for sustainable national development. 

According to Mr. Ackon, trained nurses and midwives are such indispensable healthcare professionals that in most of the areas in the country where there are shortages of physicians to provide primary care to the people, these care providers make up for the deficiency, particularly in the rural areas. 

The Regional Minister however expressed regret that some of the nurses and midwives have under-mined their professions with unethical and unprofessional conducts such that patients are certain times treated with scorn and abuse. 

Mr. Ackon reminded healthcare providers of their code of ethics which enjoins them to offer their utmost loyalty to the clients.





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