[ 2019-02-24 ]

Ghana needs to implement healthcare policies effectively
Accra, Feb. 24, GNA - Professor Agyeman Badu
Akosa, a former Director- General of the Ghana
Health Service (GHS) said Ghana needs to implement
healthcare policies effectively to improve the
lives of her people.

He said the country had workable healthcare
policies but statistics available proved the
implementation had been unsuccessful.

“Ghana has a lot of very good policies but
unfortunately we are not able to implement them
like we should. I think we prevaricate on so many
things… and the kind of statistics that are
coming out tells us we are not moving as fast as
we should,” he said.

Prof. Akosa said this in an interview with the
Ghana News Agency at a public lecture organised by
Webster University, Ghana on the theme:
“Healthcare Policy and the Crisis of Public
Health in Africa.”

He said the failure of Ghana to properly implement
her healthcare policies posed serious threats to
the citizens and the future, which must be
addressed holistically.

“The dangers are that Ghana as a lower
middle-income country has almost over 40 per cent
of its children not properly nourished and that
has major consequences on their cognitive
abilities and their development as the future
leaders of this country,” he noted.

Dr Naa Ashiley Vanderpuye-Donton, the Managing
Director of International Health Care Centre
(IHCC), said the country was inffective in the
implementation of the policies because they were
“technically good but a bit out of
context.”

“I think if we want to get things working we
have to step up our research efforts. And we need
to ensure that the research is leading to data
that is informing us on what solutions we should
put together.”

Prof Jean-Germain Gros, Visiting Faculty (USA),
Webster Ghana, said Africa’s healthcare
policies had evolved over the years but had been
challenged by the fast-growing population.


Mrs Martha Amankwah, Director of Enrollment
Management at Webster University, Ghana, said more
of such lectures would be organised to illicit
views from experts on how to tackle health and
social issues affecting the people.

Webster University Ghana was established in 2013
and has received accreditation from both the
National Accreditation Board and the Higher
Learning Commission of the United States.

The Ghana Campus is also the first in sub-Saharan
Africa in Webster's 102-year history.

Webster University, is an American University
based in St. Louis, Missouri, and has a network of
American-style residential international campuses
in nine countries spanning over four continents.

Source - GNA

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