‘Ministry committed to improving curative, emergency services’
The Ministry of Health is to put in place strategic measures to improve curative and emergency services, as well as pursue vigorous human resource capacity building and infrastructure development initiative to build a robust health system that will respond appropriately to global health concern.
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According to the sector minister, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the ministry would collaborate with health partners to expand health promotion programmes and scale up disease prevention strategies to realise that vision.
At the launch of an international journal on health in Accra last Friday, he said: “The vision of the government is to see that the right to health of all Ghanaians is guaranteed through an established health sector with sustainable ability to deliver affordable, equitable and easily accessible health care.”
Numid Horizon Journal
The 95-page journal of the National Nursing and Midwifery Council (NNMC) which consists of 10 articles, is entitled “Numid Horizon Journal, An international journal of nursing and midwifery.”
The journal, with articles that discuss health issues such as fertility, breastfeeding, child and adult care and maternal death, is aimed at providing nursing and midwifery practitioners with continuing education in academic and clinical science.
It also informs readers on non-research aspects of public health including the philosophic, ethical, legal, environmental, historical and cultural issues surrounding health care.
The journal was funded by the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and Wisconsin International University College (WICU).
Mr Manu said there was the need for nursing and midwifery researchers to exert much effort in implementing research findings as the growth of the profession would depend on the ability of its members to build and share knowledge.
He said research in nursing and midwifery would provide insights and discoveries to hold nurses and midwives accountable to high professional standards and encourage individual growth.
Ethical dimension
For his part, a lecturer at the Ashesi University, Professor Stephen Adei, urged the government to strengthen the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
He noted that the insensitive attitude displayed by some healthcare professionals was worrying and that there was the need to improve the nursing and midwifery profession.
Prof. Adei encouraged the council to put mechanisms in place to continue to enlighten people on health issues through its publication, adding: “There can be a joint publication by lecturers and the training students.”
