As part of measures to ensure improved access to quality and timely healthcare in the country, the Ghana Health Service has revealed plans to commence a seamless healthcare system.
The program also aims at providing a continuum of care patients.
The policy according to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service(GHS), Dr. Ebenezer Appiah Denkyirah has become necessary because it will also correct some defects in the country’s health care delivery system which he described as too dispersed and unconnected.
[contextly_sidebar id=”5dMn3eZVJNTFn3S63P8m8q4jpqnwENhD”]“We are going to sign an MOU with private health institutions, we’ve done that already with the Christian Health Association of Ghana and very soon we are going to develop that with the quasi government health facilities” he said.
With the doctor to patient ratio which currently stands at 1:13,000 the GHS boss is also optimistic that the policy would lessen the burden on government health facilities and bring healthcare to the door steps of Ghanaians.
The seamless healthcare system comprises a network of health care providers and organizations which provide or arrange to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population.
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By: Kwame Botchway/citifmonline.com/Ghana.