The Upper East Regional Co-ordinating Director, Alhaji Mahammadu Assibi Azonko has charged all the Municipal and District Health Directors to ensure the full implementation of the Health-Integrated Annual Action Plans (HIAPs) to promote quality health delivery.
Alhaji Azonko said that the development of HIAPs would themselves not anchor in the desired outcomes if the other collaborators in the health sector are not brought on board and strictly adhere to the terms and conditions of the plan.
The Chief Director made the call at Bolgatanga during a- day's training programme on HIAPs for all the fifteen Municipal and District Assemblies and Health staff in the Upper East Region.
Alhaji Azonko said that HIAPs monitoring is not a stand- alone exercise but one that is envisaged to form part of the routine work of the respective Municipal and District and Planning Committee Units.
Alhaji Mahammadu Assibi Azonko
“The idea of this training is to enable team members develop an eye for the status of health-related programmes being rolled out at the community level”, he emphasized.
He explained that Ghana is now a trail-blaizer in the implementation of Community-Based Health Planning Services indicating that data available at the Ghana Health Services indicates that there are more than 3,175 functional CHPS and 1,410 functional compounds across the country. "We should therefore expand our range of successes in the concept by making the HIAP a success” he added.
Taking the participants through the training, the Senior Programmer Officer of the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA), Mr. Abu Dokuwie Alhassan explained that HIAPs is simple tool being used to strengthen collaboration among stakeholders in the Health sector.
He mentioned these stakeholders as the Municipal, and District Assemblies (MDAs), District Health Management Team (DHMT) and any other collaborator or a stakeholder that provides some level of support for health delivery services in the various districts.
Mr. Alhassan further explained that health is wealth even in the abundance of resources, the various collaborators should endeavour to make health their central aim of investment, adding that based on that (JICA) through its technical co-operation projects has been promoting the concept of HIAPs.
To that effect, he urged the assemblies as the lead development agencies at the district level and their collaborators contributing to health to marshal a lot of resources to support the concept in order to improve on health delivery in their various jurisdictions.
0 Comments