The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu has admonished Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the region to encourage their partners in the Private Sector to channel resources to enhance Health Care delivery.
According to him, Government will leverage on the support of Non-Governmental Organizations and the private sector to complement service delivery.
In line with this, the minister appealed to donor organizations and private institutions and individuals to provide support especially where they are capable.
He made these remarks during a Multi-stakeholder meeting on Access to Maternal Health, Quality of Care Standards, Financing and Universal Health Coverage organized by Rise-Ghana at the Ghana Health Service In-service training Center in Bolgatanga, as part of STAR-Ghana led Gender Rights and Empowerment Project (GREP).
GREP implemented by RISE-Ghana under the theme of Maternal Health with sub title; “Strengthening Health Committees and Citizens Groups to Champion Access to Quality Maternal Health” in the Talensi and Nabdam Districts of the Region has been designed to mobilize and build capacity of citizens, duty bearers, community level health facility committees and civil society organization to leverage policy and operational standards to improve maternal health through advocacy for increased financing and demand creation towards better maternal health outcomes for women and adolescents.
The programm which is implemented with generous funding support from the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) covers 14 Health Facilities in the Talensi and Nabdam Districts of the Upper East Region.
The project since its launch has trained 14 health committees on the use of scorecards to assess maternal health services in their various health facilities to come out with action plans for resolving issues identified.
In a speech read on behalf of the Minister, by Yvonne Wunchua, Mr Yakubu said, the “MDAs should encourage their partners in Private Sectors to channel their Corporate Social Responsibility to improve service delivery and to provide access and quality maternal Health services” in the region.
He however urged the MDAs to support Health Facilities with their requirement as indicated in their Medium-Term Development and Annual Action Plans.
He noted that, as the government is doing its part to provide the best of health care services, the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) will continue to play its monitoring, evaluation, coordinating and supervisory roles with its partners to ensure health delivery improves in the region.
