The Health Minister designate Dr Benard Okoe-Boye says the government will commission and operationalise Agenda 111 projects in phases. “We will phase them to be able to commission a number of completed hospitals in Phase one, operationalize them and move on to another batch of hospitals,” he said. Dr Okoe-Boye was speaking at the opening of the 2024 Health Sector Annual Summit in Accra, a platform to assess performance of the health sector and to reflect on successes, achievements, challenges, and plan towards achieving an improved healthcare system for the population.
The three- day summit will discuss how the health sector can realise the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) target by 2030 and the goals of the National Health Policy (2020) which is “to promote, restore and maintain healthy lives for people living in Ghana”. The summit is on the theme, “Quality Healthcare Delivery: A Catalyst for Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Ghana.” The Health Minister designate said the year had been a challenging one for the health sector due to accumulated unpaid bills, uncompleted projects, irregular supply of commodities, shortage of health commodities like medicines and consumables and the capping of Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of some agencies.
He said the inadequate numbers and distribution of critical health professionals and difficulty in attracting and retaining critical staff, especially in deprived remote areas was a challenge to the health sector. “The .
