Ms. Tina Gifty Naa Ayeley Mensah, Vice Minister of Health, said Wednesday that medical innovations seemed to be the only option to optimize the quality of care provided in the country.

According to her, to achieve major progress in health care delivery, it was necessary to adopt a multi-faceted approach, complemented by a collaborative partnership and innovations.

Ms. Mensah made this observation in a speech read on her behalf at the 2019 Health Care Forum in collaboration with the Nyaho Dove Foundation, on "Innovating for Quality Health Care" in Accra.

According to her, improving the quality of health care in Ghana was one of the government's priorities, saying that the private sector's contribution had had a global impact on the performance of the health sector, a phenomenon that was at the origin of the huge successes in the health sector. providing safe and quality services.

She said the government alone would not have been able to record these gains without the contribution of the private sector.

She admitted that much more could have been done to improve access to quality health care, including a health care infrastructure, appropriate and modern technology, and adequate staff with the required skills.

"These reasons among many others are why public and private sector stakeholders still need to work together and ensure that citizens receive the best health care.

"Innovative and quality health care is not cheap, especially in our part of the world where we need to redouble our efforts because of the low budget allocation for health compared to other high-income countries .

"These low budgets are the result of other urgent and vital needs for which the government is committed," she said.

Ms. Mensah noted that the government does not have sufficient resources to bear all the costs of innovation for quality health care delivery. To this end, the public-private partnership was demonstrated through the use of medical drone delivery services set up by the government.

She added that this innovative idea was intended to provide a quick response to medical emergencies, especially in difficult access areas, by flying emergency medical supplies using drones as well as rescue medical products selected by the Ministry of Health.

"One of the most important pillars of this government has been knowing how to develop this country without leaving anyone behind. Technology would play a vital role in the advancement of this policy.

"We want to get to the point where innovation and technology become the cornerstone of improving the way we work, the impact on lifestyle and improving access to services, whatever the sites in Ghana, "she said.

Dr. Victoria Lokko, medical director of Nyaho Medical Center, said the forum aimed to influence the delivery of health care in Ghana and Africa as a whole, saying the event was organized by the Nyaho Dove Foundation, part of the Nyaho Medical Center (social responsibility center). .

She said that in its collaborative effort on health sector innovation in Ghana, this year's forum and national conversation have focused on the health sector and seek to harness the leadership powers of all actors in the sector.

Dr. Lokko said, "In the last ten years, health care has experienced an explosion of innovations, but the sector still has more opportunities to innovate."

Dr. Lokko said health facilities today are faced with the challenge of improving quality, reducing damage, improving access to health care, improving health, and improving health. eliminate waste and reduce costs for the delivery of health care. All these elements highlighted the need to involve the relevant stakeholders and make them a reality.

She said that the future of health care in Ghana was based on innovation and that it was an opportunity to start now.

Dr. Elikem Tamaklo, Executive Director of the Nyaho Medical Center, said Ghana's national health care quality strategy aims to continuously improve the health and well-being of Ghanaians through the establishment of a health care system. a better coordinated health system that places patients and communities at the center of quality care.

He noted that even though it was an ambitious statement, they had committed to working with the ministry to achieve it.

"Every population-based country has different priorities, but for us in Ghana, our future generations are facing two major problems, namely chronic diseases and infectious diseases," he said.

Dr. Tamaklo said, "As a country, we have to deal with these two enormous situations because ultimately our children and the next generation will be affected."

He said that it was necessary to change mentalities to work together, claiming that the Nyaho Medical Center did not see its role as an isolated provider, because the reality was that as human beings we depended from each other and encouraged everyone to participate. to tackle the fundamental problems that were huge challenges facing the country.