National Symposium on Health Concludes in Accra

Accra, June 13, GNA – A former Director of the
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, projected that
Ghana may not achieve the World Health Organization (WHO) targets by 2030 if
national efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) have not
intensified.

He said that Ghana's performance at CSU
about 45%, which is not encouraging.

The former director of the GHS spoke at the
the end of a three-day National Symposium on the Dissemination of Health Research (NHRDS)
Accra Thursday.

The WHO 2030 targets nations to:
put an end to preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with the aim of
reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and
under-5 mortality should be at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.

Dr. Appiah-Denkyira said that one in ten
Ghanaians over 40 were hypertensive and unconscious, a situation that can make it
difficult to reduce by a third
premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases through prevention and
treatment .

He stressed the need for the Government to
invest more funds in the health sector and ensure that free maternal health
the policy worked perfectly in all parts of the country while all
Planning and community-based health services (CHPS) benefit from logistics
to work.

The symposium was co-organized by United
United States for International Development (USAID) and the Evaluate in
collaboration with research, statistics and information management
Directorate (RSIMD) of the Ministry of Health and Research in Health and
Development Division (RDD) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS).

It was on the theme "Accelerating progress
towards achieving the third goal of sustainable development through research
Innovation and partnerships.

At the end of the symposium,
Participants suggested that health workers should focus more on reducing
hemorrhage in pregnant women by improving the quality of care provided during
prenatal.

They also urged the health authorities to use
effective use of information communication technologies in health care
delivery.

Participants further advocated
development of local words for noncommunicable diseases to help create more
awareness of the prevention and treatment of these diseases.

They said that it was time health
professionals puts into practice all the results of health research and develops
clearer ways to better communicate with the public to improve health
delivery.

GNA