Ghana’s rural areas to get emergency medical services soon
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is to provide emergency medical care centres in the rural areas as part of its measures to improve upon health care delivery system for the rural folks.
Consequently, the government has procured 161 Ambulances and is currently having about 400 drivers and paramedics trained to assist in undertaking that assignment.
The Health Minister, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh who said this in a speech read on his behalf by the chief Nursing Officer, Mr George Kumi Kyeremeh on Thursday, further revealed that plans are also underway to acquire obstetric equipments to re-equip primary health care centres and midwifery in rural areas.
The speech was delivered on Thursday, at the inauguration of the Association of University Nursing Programmes-Ghana (ASUNP) at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on the theme “Promoting Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery through Higher Education”.
ASUNP is an inter university organization that has bachelor’s and graduate degrees in nursing and midwifery programmes with the intent of improving the practice of professional nursing and midwifery education through advancing the quality of bachelors and graduate education in nursing and midwifery as well as serving as a medium trough which issues critical to nursing and midwifery education could be addressed.
“All nurses and midwives would be required to undertake training in emergency care as part of their training before they pass out as professionals”, the Minister declared.
The Ministry will also aid the development of the human resource base of the health sector to facilitate the delivery of quality health care to the people and pointed out that, acquiring degrees as health professionals should reflect in the kind of services they render to their clients.
The Vice-Chancellor of the UCC, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang who presided, urged the Association to network with other sister organizations to share their expertise and stressed that it was prudent that they worked to ensure that their counterparts in the sub-region also succeeded.
Source: GNA