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Medical and Dental Council This is a very laudable move by the MDC. [Click ‘Medical and Dental Council’ to download the policy].

Over the past decades Ghana has invested strongly in maternal and reproductive health care to support attainment of its development goals. Several high level initiatives have been launched in the country since 1990 to enhance progress towards MDG5, of which Making Pregnancy Safer Initiative, CARMMA and MDG5 acceleration framework(MAF) are amongst the most notable. Ghana […]

Since 1998, Ghana has committed itself to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Initiative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which builds on the Global Malaria Strategy with a focus on Africa and a goal to halve the world’s malaria burden by 2010. Consequently, the country drew up a ‘Medium Term Strategic Plan for Malaria Control […]

It is becoming increasingly clear that many developing countries, including Ghana, will find it difficult to achieve all the targets of the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015. The challenges are well documented. Weak health systems exacerbated by continuing challenges in developing and retaining the requisite human resource for health have contributed to the […]

Pharmaceuticals are essential to the delivery of health care in any given population or country. Drugs (including vaccines) cut across all major areas of health care delivery. The absence or inadequate supply of drugs has always led to a loss of confidence in the health care system. Drugs are useful in promoting health, preventing and […]

Access and intensity of use of health services have always been of significant concern in Ghana. These concerns have been raised on both social and political platforms over the years and have underpinned key policy directives in the health sector particularly in recent times. The extent to which stakeholders hold the health sector accountable in […]

Access and intensity of use of health services have always been of significant concern in Ghana. These concerns have been raised on both social and political platforms over the years and have underpinned key policy directives in the health sector particularly in recent times. The extent to which stakeholders hold the health sector accountable in […]

From the mid-nineties, the health sector has seen major reforms with the active participation of development partners. In the process, the public sector planning, budgeting and accounting systems were strengthened. The institutional arrangements were reorganized with the passage of the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospital Act, Act 525, 1996. This led to the establishment […]

The policy of referring patients from primary care levels to the appropriate level for continuous provision of health care in the country has been identified as an integral component of the health delivery system. There is the need, therefore, to ensure a well-structured and efficient referral system that will not only stand the test of […]