Government must pay attention to external and environmental health issues-CSOs

2 mins read

Some (CSOs) in health have called on the government to pay attention to external factors influencing people's health and healthcare delivery in the country.

These include road safety issues, and the impact of road crashes on victims, communities, families, and . They said the government must also ensure a meaningful engagement between the (MOH) and the public to provide adequate and timely information to patients.

The CSOs advocated for this at a forum on organised by the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights in on Thursday. They also called for increased political will, commitment, and funding of health interventions.

Mr Abass Sulemana, Senior Operations Manager, of the (NHIA), said the authority would this year increase access to clinical and emergencies. He said the NHIA would ensure that 100 per cent of the public was covered under the (NHIS) by 2030 with an expansion of its range of service provisions.

He said the NHIA had developed an essential healthcare package, which had been approved by the MOH and would be launched this year.
The package, he said, would ensure the provision of preventive, palliative, curative, and emergency care to public health emergencies as well as mental .

“In addition to the essential healthcare package, we are going to provide infirmaries at marketplaces, schools and workplaces in order to bring healthcare closer to the people,” he added. Mr Archibald Adams, a spokesperson for the CSOs in health, said the had presented Ghana with the opportunities to attain UHC.

He said UCH could be attained by strengthening health systems for public health emergencies and by investing more in health .
UHC is access to timely healthcare and quality irrespective of the ability to pay at the point of use.
The goal of the UHC is to increase access to quality essential health care and population-based services for all by 2030.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Latest from General