[ 2021-03-10 ]

Electronic medical records system deployment underway in Ghana – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said
that the government will continue to invest in
Ghana’s health sector.

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He said the administration will also continue to
recruit more health professionals, in addition to
the one hundred thousand recruited in his first
term for the health facilities.



Delivering his first state of the nation address
in his second term on Tuesday March 9, he said
“Electronic medical records system (E-Health)
deployment is currently underway, following its
implementation in key health facilities like
Korle-Bu, KomfoAnokye, Ho, Tamale and Cape Coast
Teaching Hospitals, and several district hospitals
in the Central Region. Upper East, Upper West, and
Bono Regional Hospitals will go live on the
e-health platform in five (5) days.

“When it was needed most, at the height of the
pandemic, the ingenuity and creativity of the
Ghanaian shone through, which caught the attention
of the world. When PPEs were being sold on the
world market at extortionist prices, largely
because demand outstripped supply, we began
producing them in Ghana. Scrubs, medical gowns,
sanitisers, masks, and gloves, all of these
essential to the fight against COVID-19, were
produced in Ghana. In total, fourteen million, six
hundred thousand pieces of personal protective
equipment have, so far, been produced domestically
for health workers, students, teaching and
non-teaching staff of tertiary and secondary
educational institutions.

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“We are determined to make our own things, and
the Akufo-Addo government will continue with the
agenda of rapid industrialisation, with the aim of
transforming the structure of the Ghanaian economy
from one dependent on the production and export of
raw materials to a valueadded, industrialised
economy. Under the “One-District-One-Factory”
(1D1F) initiative, two hundred and thirty-two
(232) projects are at various stages of
implementation. These include seventy-six (76)
operating as 1D1F companies, whilst one hundred
and twelve (112), including five (5) medium size
agro-processing factories, and sixty-three (63)
Common User Facilities are under construction.

“The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development
Corporation (GIADEC) has made good progress on the
bauxite exploitation programme that will drive our
industrial transformation agenda. We are in the
final stage of an open and transparent investor
engagement process, and are in negotiations to
select strategic investors to partner GIADEC for
the bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects.
The selected partners will be announced
imminently. Similarly, the Ghana Integrated Iron
and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC) has
been set up, and has begun its work in earnest.



“We have succeeded in attracting major global
vehicle manufacturers, under the automotive
development policy, to set up in Ghana. So far,
Volkswagen has produced one thousand, one hundred
and sixty-seven (1,167) vehicles, SinoTruk two
hundred and seventy-six (276) vehicles, and our
own Kantanka has produced four hundred (400)
vehicles. The Japanese conglomerate, Nissan, has
also started the assembly of vehicles in the
country.”

He added “our nation’s food resilience has
been severely tested over the past year. The
closure of borders, in the midst of the pandemic,
meant that we have had to depend largely on food
we produced. We have fared well under the
circumstances, largely as a result of the bold
policies implemented by Government since 2017,
such as the programme for Planting for Food and
Jobs, Rearing for Food and Jobs, the 1-Village-1-
Dam initiative, 1-District-1-Warehouse policy,
establishment of greenhouse villages,
revitalisation of the cocoa rehabilitation
programme, and the reactivation of our aquaculture
industry. I am happy to inform the House that,
during this period of the pandemic, we have
experienced no food shortages in the country.

Source - 3 News

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