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The Director-General, Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea (DG) has engaged leaders of key health sector unions as part of preparations towards the rollout of the Free Primary Healthcare initiative.
The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has updated the public on progress in the implementation of the Free Primary Healthcare (FPHC) policy, reaffirming the government's commitment to bringing quality healthcare services closer to communities across the country.
Over the past week, the Ghana Health Service has intensified preparations for the effective rollout of the Government’s Free Primary Healthcare Programme through a series of capacity-building trainings across various levels of the Service.
The Ghana Health Service has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening access to quality surgical and specialised healthcare as the Global Mercy begins a 10-month field service in Ghana.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in collaboration with World Vision Ghana, UNICEF and the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Sub-Platform on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, has engaged civil society organizations (CSOs) and key stakeholders in a consultative meeting to support the ongoing review of Ghana's National Nutrition Policy.
Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, Director-General of the Service has tasked members of the inaugurated Ghana Health Service Free Primary Health Care (FPHC) Implementation Committee to provide effective oversight and ensure a coordinated rollout of the programme across the 135 implementing districts.
That Service has received and handed over three Toyota Hilux pickup vehicles to the Central, Eastern and Ashanti Regions to support the implementation of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAHN) Networks of Practice (NoP) initiative. The vehicles, procured by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), with UNICEF serving as the implementing partner, are expected to enhance mobility and strengthen supervision, monitoring and community-level interventions across the beneficiary regions.
The Service, in collaboration with World Vision Ghana and other partners, has organized a two-day consultative meeting to begin developing a Nutrition Sermon Guide. The meeting brought together faith leaders and representatives from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to share ideas and expertise on creating a guide that can be used in churches to increase nutrition awareness in communities.
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH), Ridge, has handed over an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine to the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) at a short ceremony in Accra.
The Ghana Health Service, in conjunction with all One Health stakeholders, has completed a two-day Intra-Action Review of the country's response to the ongoing Mpox outbreak. Approximately a year after a series of confirmed Mpox cases sent health teams racing into action, the review sought to account for and evaluate the current response. The meeting brought together animal, environmental and security agencies, as well as regional and district-level health staff, senior management and international development partners to assess the effectiveness of the national response and determine the measures required to bring the outbreak to a conclusive end.
The Ghana Health Service has launched a suite of strategic documents and a national roadmap to guide the establishment, governance and phased operationalization of Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) across the country, in a move aimed at strengthening Ghana’s capacity to prepare for, coordinate and respond to public health emergencies. The launch, held at the Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa Conference Centre of the new GHS Headquarters in Pantang, brought together stakeholders from the health and non-health sectors to advance a well-coordinated and effective national public health emergency management system.
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The Ghana Health Service has intensified efforts to strengthen legal support and preventive mechanisms within the health sector as part of measures to address the increasing incidence and impact of medicolegal cases on healthcare delivery in Ghana. This was highlighted at the opening of the Structured Legal Education Programme for Legal Officers in Health, organised to enhance the knowledge, skills and capacity of Legal Officers to effectively manage legal risks and provide timely legal guidance to health managers and healthcare providers.
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