Citi News<\/strong>, Lead Researcher and Programme Officer for\u00a0SEND\u00a0Ghana, John Nkrumah, attributed the situation to inadequate funding to the health facilities.<\/p>\nHe said in\u00a02013, many health facilities in the three regions of the north, did not receive government funds on time and others did not get any funding at all from the government.<\/p>\n
He also cited the doctor to patient ratio as a critical challenge and said that more doctors should be trained with\u00a0more incentive packages for them to\u00a0accept postings in the regions normally considered unattractive.<\/p>\n
A Member of the Select Committee on Health and Member of Parliament for Berekum East, Dr. Kwabena Twum Nuamah, also urged government to increase its budgetary allocation to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to cater for expenses in the various health facilities.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged that the returns on revenue had not increased as expected hence the difficulties with the implementation of the free maternal deliveries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the health insurance started with this free maternal delivery, it was very smooth because they had enough money to be able to take care of the expenses that came along with it. But because the economy had not grown the way we all expected, we\u2019ve not been able to increase the revenues as we all expected; so because of that, they\u00a0are running into difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n
He therefore called for\u00a0government’s intervention to enable the NHIS make enough money to take care of their funding arrangements in order to provide better\u00a0healthcare\u00a0for their clients.<\/p>\n
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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