We are building a comprehensive health package for Ghanaians – Prez Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Ghana is developing a comprehensive primary healthcare package for her citizens to ensure Ghanaians have access to better health, lower costs, and healthier families and communities.

Addressing the gathering at the launch of the ‘Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being’, President Akufo-Addo indicated that “we have launched the world’s largest medical drone delivery service to some fifteen (15) health facilities, as part of the first phase of the service.”

He explained that the plan is to help urge countries and the World Health Organization (WHO), to co-ordinate a process of developing an action plan to propel progress towards realising SDG No. 3, thus ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all ages.

“We agree, and are confident that the execution of the four (4) strategies outlined under the Global Action Plan and the seven (7) accelerators, i.e. sustainable financing, primary health care, community and civil society engagement, determinants of health, R&D, innovation and access, data and digital health, innovative programming in fragile and vulnerable states and for disease outbreak response, will strengthen the implementation of the Plan,” the President said.

“In the area of sustainable financing, we have revived our National Health Insurance Scheme, which, for a minimum subscription, guarantees access to a wide array of healthcare services, ” he added.

The President disclosed that “Ghana is leveraging on the use of technology, with some of our healthcare facilities, before the end of the year, going paperless. Ghana has also deployed an electronic platform for logistics management information systems for the distribution of drug and non-drug commodities in the country.”