Ghana’s health sector has retrogressed due to
the poor governance by the Mahama-led administration, the flagbearer of the
National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has
said.“Our health system is really not a system because it is not
working,” Nana Konadu asserted as an indictment of government’s management of
Ghana’s health care system.
“Diseases that have been eradicate from
our country have resurfaced; yellow fever, typhoid, yaws, scabies… all due to
poor sanitation and incompetent governance.”
Nana Konadu, a former First
Lady, made these remarks on the health care system at the Institute of Economic
Affairs’ (IEA) Conversation Series.
She lamented that there wasn’t “a
single family, as in extended family, regardless of financial status that has
not lost a family member to an illness or disease that could have been treated
if timely proper care had been administered.”
Nana Konadu further
bemoaned the predicament of health care professionals who she said “are
frustrated due to their inability to help save their patients as a result of
ill-equipped hospitals and a bureaucracy that stifles their
dedication.”
“We need to create a system that supports our dedicated
healthcare service men and women whilst weeding out those who are guilty of
malpractice,” she stated.
“How can a nation that prides itself on peace
and stability shaken by outbreaks of typhoid and cholera; diseases easily
avoidable if our health and sanitation systems worked
effectively.”
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