Editor of the Custodian newspaper, Awudu Mahama has asserted that one cannot boast of quality healthcare with just the construction of health facilities.
He mentioned that quality healthcare can only be achieved if there is a combination of professional health workers and the construction of health facilities.
Speaking on the special editors’ take segment of the Happy Morning Show, he said: “The health sector is not just about building a Community Health Improvement Planning and Service (CHPS) compounds and the structures. It is also about the equipment and the human resources you will add so that with the combination of human resource or health workers and structures, you can have quality healthcare”.
Awudu touted President Nana Akufo-Addo’s achievements in this field by stating, “Within the last three and half years, as part of efforts to get people to man the infrastructure we have, this government has employed over 56,000 health sector workers”.
He furthered that apart from these factors, the government must ensure that the facilitation of people is made easier. According to him, “the first time in Ghana’s history, president Akufo-Addo at a go provided 307 ambulances so that sick people can be easily sent to the hospital”.
The opposition National Democratic Congress has over the years boasted that their government has transformed Ghana’s healthcare by investing heavily in our healthcare infrastructure by building clinics and hospitals, providing more beds upgrading equipment and training nurses and doctors.
Ahead of the 2020 December polls, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama has promised to implement a free Primary Health Care Plan to provide quality health care for all Ghanaians.
Meanwhile, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday, August 22, 2020, as part of its manifesto promises, has said that, among other things, it will deliver on the largest healthcare infrastructure investment by any government in the last fifty years.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah
