GHS INTRODUCES 'TASK SHARING INITIATIVE' IN ASH.

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The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has held an orientation meeting on Task Sharing Initiative to improve maternal health.

 The programme aims to train Community Health Nurses and Enrolled Nurses on a six-week course as Midwife Assistants due to inadequate midwives at lower levels of service delivery. 

According to the Ashanti Regional Chief Nursing Officer, Madam Rita Esi Anafu, while efforts are being made to reduce maternal mortality, the efforts are being hampered by inadequate number of midwives who work to improve on maternal and child health.   

Madam Anafu said, the task sharing initiative, when implemented, will reduce maternal morbidity and mortality since the services of Community and Enrolled Nurses self-directed learning programme will be recognized when there is no midwife around. 

She said, the Community and Enrolled nurses will render comprehensive Maternal and Child Health education to pregnant and lactating mothers.

 Madam Anafu noted also that the initiative will serve as a motivation as well as a morale booster to community and enrolled nurses as they would now feel sense of inclusion and recognition. 

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira said two strategies have been put in place to in order to reduce maternal and child health in the country. 

The first strategy has to do with reaching every citizen with quality health care without financial value thereby providing universal health coverage to ensure that all people obtain quality health care through Community Health and Planning Services, CHPS.

 Dr. Appiah Denkyirah mentioned the second strategy as adolescent reproductive education to reduce teenage pregnancy.

 He was optimistic that maternal and neonatal deaths would be a thing of the past. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah suggested that staff should be given the necessary knowledge, skills and competencies to go extra mile to address the need of equity. 

He maintained that legal considerations must be taken to cover the staff and the ministry. 

The Director of Family Health, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye mentioned challenges facing reproductive health in Ghana as poor geographical access leading to delays in reaching health care, poor referral service and poor attitude of health workers.

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