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Accra, Ghana – Ten Ministries of Well being with nation, regional and international companions have resolved to strengthen collaboration in direction of bettering maternal, new child and little one well being via sustained high quality of care in any respect ranges of the well being system.
This dedication was made on the international assembly of the Community for bettering high quality of look after Maternal, New child and Baby Well being (MNCH) held in Ghana. The assembly was co-organized by the Ministry of Well being, Ghana, the World Well being Group (WHO) and UNICEF on the theme: Sustaining and scaling up high quality of look after MNCH.
In his keynote tackle, Ghana’s Minister of Well being, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu underscored the position of Major Well being Care (PHC) methods in guaranteeing the provision of high quality companies for moms, newborns and youngsters. He, due to this fact, referred to as for stronger collaboration among the many Community nations and companions to speed up the attainment of Common Well being Protection (UHC).
“Our ambition for Common Protection will solely be an phantasm if we’re not aware of the standard of care,” added Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu.
This assembly was aimed toward participating with the champions from authorities, implementing companions and different stakeholders to mirror on 5 years of efforts to combine high quality of care in well being methods and maternal, new child and little one well being interventions.
The WHO Appearing Assistant Director-Common for UHC, Dr Anshu Banerjee highlighted the significance of high quality of care within the prevention of maternal mortality and referred to as on nations to combine high quality of care into well being methods.
“We should embrace high quality of care in nationwide strategic plans and make sure that it’s successfully carried out in any respect ranges of care,” Dr Anshu Banerjee said.
On his half, the WHO Consultant to Ghana, Dr Francis Kasolo, famous the progress Community nations, together with Ghana have made in strengthening the well being system to offer high quality care and referred to as for steady information sharing to consolidate the positive aspects.
“Leveraging our collective expertise of care and engagement of the neighborhood on this regard supplies a superb pathway to scale up throughout Community nations”. Dr Kasolo stated.
Stakeholders on the assembly dedicated to making sure the rights and fairness in high quality of look after essentially the most susceptible ladies, newborns and youngsters while additionally recognizing the necessity to be taught from and share rising improvements to enhance high quality of care.
Additionally they reaffirmed their dedication to bettering people-centred care, together with ladies’s newborns’, kids’s and households’ expertise of care and proceed to develop nationwide studying methods that facilitate documentation and information change in help of scaling up of high-quality maternal, new child and little one well being companies.
“These commitments mirror our collective dedication as nations and companions to deepen our ongoing joint efforts in direction of bettering the well being and wellbeing of moms, newborns and youngsters via the standard of care initiative,” famous Dr Roseline Doe, the Reproductive, Maternal, New child, Baby and Adolescent Well being (RMNCAH) Officer at WHO Ghana.
The assembly introduced collectively Ministries of Well being from 11 nations – Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda in addition to nationwide, regional and international companions, growth organizations, NGOs, non-public sector, academia and analysis establishments.
