Accra, March 17, GNA – Major Courage Quashigah Minister of Health on Monday expressed the ministry’s desire to assist Sierra Leone improve its health system after going through 10 years of civil war. He said with the Ghana’s three teaching hospitals, health training institutions and College of Physicians and Surgeons offering post graduate courses in the medical field, Ghana would have lot to offer to Sierra Leone and other countries in the sub-region. “We wouldn’t like you to rely and pay so much on consultants from outside. We will collaborate with you and offer our expertise and help you revive the condition of your country as well as other neighbours in the sub-region”.
Major Quashigah said this when a four-man delegation from Sierra Leone on a study tour called on him in Accra.
The Sierra Leone delegation led by the Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr Saccoh Alex Kabia are on a week’s tour to study Ghana’s health system and replicate best practices, have first hand information on current ways of meeting health components of the Millennium Development Goals and have a functional Hospital Board Management. Other areas that will be of interest to the delegation would be health the insurance scheme, storage, medication, dialysis and cost recovery, human resources, adequate drugs supply, conditions of service for health workers, occupational health and psychiatry. Ghana’s Health Minister said Ghana’s health system developed in the interest of the colonial masters but had the biggest hospitals only based in the capital cities but went through reforms. “We then introduce the Community Health Implementation Programmes (CHIPS) which requires that with every eight kilometres radius there should be a health centre manned by at least two nurses to deliver quality health care to people at the community and bring quality health care to the doorsteps of the people”.
Source: GhanaWeb
