FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 12.12.2017
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that all UN
Member States have agreed to try to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030.
Despite dramatic gains–including a substantial reduction in maternal
and child mortality, lack of access to essential healthcare for all remains problem
in the country.
Observing this year’s Universal Health Coverage Day (five years after the United Nations unanimously endorsed
universal health coverage) with the theme: Health for all; Rise for Our Right, the Divine Mother
and Child (DMAC) Foundation has called on policy makers and stake holders to
strengthen health services at the community level.
In a statement to the
press, Mr. Owurani Charles Oduro (programs manager) called on government to
strengthen the idea for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana,
which was to abolish the cash and carry system of health delivery and
provide affordable, quality health care to every person, everywhere they need
without financial hardship.
Basic investigative equipment’s should be made available at
the primary clinics for effective diagnosis and referral.
We call on all community opinion leaders, civil society
organization and cooperate bodies/institutions to support the health services
in mobilization and reaching out communities to make health care at the door
step of local communities feasible.
“We Rise for Our
Right that every Ghanaian no matter where they are, where they live, or how
much money they have should have access to quality basic care they need”
Health for all
Rise for our right
Media contact:
Owurani Charles Oduro
(Programs Manager - DMAC Foundation)
Mobile: +233 50 398 4128
www.dmacfoundation.org
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