Koforidua, June 20, GNA - Stakeholders from the Ghana Health Service (GHS), municipal and district assemblies planning units and department of social welfare have attended a workshop on ‘the functionality of dashboard’ under the People for Health Project (P4H).
The dashboard is a digital interactive platform which would utilize various social media platforms to bridge the feedback gap between citizens and health service providers.
The training was for key staff within the selected departments and agencies that would manage the platform and help increase citizenry participation in governance processes in the health sector.
The effort is also to ensure that appropriate responses are made to enquiries and reports on health related issues with key focus on nutrition, HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation, family planning and malaria.
The P4H project is being implemented in 20 districts in four regions of the country by a consortium comprising SEND-Ghana, Pensplusbytes, Ghana News Agency with funding from the USAID.
It aims at promoting equity and reducing health inequalities by strengthening the capacity of both government and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for mutual accountability.
Mrs Harriet Nuamah Agyeman, an official of Send-Ghana, said the strategy sought to do away with the human face element in reporting or gathering feedback from the public adding that all the feedback would be collated and used as an evidence to demand for policy change.
She said whiles the P4H project was to promote health care delivery through citizenry participation, the feedback and information would be used to build capacities to track and monitor various interventions.
She expressed the hope that by the end of the project, problems within the health sector would be greatly reduced.
GNA
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