By Comfort Sena Fetrie, GNA
Tamale, May 23, GNA - The Doris Duke CHPS+Project has been launched in Tamale to help improve healthcare delivery in the Northern and Volta regions.
The five-year project would provide learning platforms known as “Systems Learning District” (SLD) to help improve health planning and services in the Northern and Volta regions.
Dr Koku Awoonor-Williams, Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ghana Health Service, expressed the hope that the project would improve health outcomes particularly in the maternal and child healthcare sectors of the two regions.
He said the project would be coordinated by Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Ghana Health Service and implemented by the respective Regional Health Administrations of the two regions with support from two public universities in the two regions.
Dr Awoonor-Williams said the two partner universities are the University for Development Studies (UDS) in the Northern Region and the University for Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in the Volta Region.
He said the University of Columbia in the United States of America would also provide technical support while the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) and the University of Ghana would evaluate the project.
Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister, in a speech read on his behalf, said Government was committed to address the high incidence of maternal and malaria mortalities.
He called on the country’s development partners and other stakeholders to support Government in its effort to improve healthcare delivery in country.
Dr Jacob Mahama, the Northern Regional Director Health Services, urged stakeholders to come on board to address challenges facing the healthcare sector.
GNA
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