The Director in charge of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Alberta Biritwum Nyarko has announced that her outfit is set to roll out a new initiative to improve quality healthcare and service delivery.
Under the programme, “Network of Practice”, the Ghana Health Service is poised to improve health service delivery through the Primary Health Care system, especially at the sub-district and community level.
This approach would see facilities such as infirmaries, maternity homes, laboratories, sickbay pharmacies and Community-based Health Planning Systems (CHPS) compounds interconnected through a district healthcare centre where each facility is expected to provide holistic and quality primary healthcare services.
Dr Biritwum Nyarko disclosed this at the Minister’s Press Briefing in Accra yesterday
Explaining further, Dr Nyarko said under the Network of Practice Programme, a group of public and private health service delivery facilities would be deliberately interconnected through an administrative and clinical management model for better client service, reduce deaths and ensure rapid response to clinical & public health emergencies.
‘’We at the Ghana Health Service have measures in place to combat the issue of unnecessary crowds, overworked doctors and nurses, long-distance client cover, cost incurred and time wasted at the district health centre’’, she said.
Dr Nyarko stated that the measures put in place would provide hospitals in sub-districts, communities and schools with the needed equipment and qualified personnel.
Source: MOI (PR Unit)
