The World Well being Group (WHO) has reaffirmed its dedication to enhancing vitamin companies, working with the Ghana Well being Service and companions to adapt and supply printed copies of the revised Important Diet Actions (ENAs) Package deal. The revised ENA marks a major step in guaranteeing that frontline well being staff have the required instruments to implement complete vitamin interventions on the Main Well being Care (PHC) degree.
The ENAs Package deal serves as a roadmap for integrating vitamin companies into Ghana’s Common Well being Protection (UHC) technique. It builds on the nation’s 2020-2030 UHC Roadmap, which prioritizes PHC as the muse for enhancing service supply. Ghana’s revised ENAs bundle adopts a life-course strategy recognizing that, addressing malnutrition requires interventions in any respect essential levels of life—from being pregnant by way of childhood, adolescence, and maturity, guaranteeing that nobody is left behind.
Since 2014, Ghana has carried out seven (7) ENAs, tailored from WHO’s international framework. These actions focused pregnant and lactating ladies and youngsters beneath 5 and emphasised a couple of key interventions. Nonetheless, to handle rising vitamin challenges—together with childhood weight problems and the long-term results of poor vitamin, Ghana has up to date its ENAs bundle, constructing on the earlier and the most recent evidence-based interventions to sort out malnutrition in all its kinds. This revised bundle of 58 interventions can be aligned with the up to date International WHO ENAs Framework (2019), nationwide well being insurance policies and pointers.
Talking on the significance of this donation, Dr. Frank Lule, Officer in Cost of WHO Ghana, emphasised WHO’s dedication to strengthening Ghana’s well being system.
“Diet is a essential pillar of well being and guaranteeing that healthcare suppliers have entry to up to date sources is important for enhancing service supply. This revised bundle will help well being staff in delivering high-quality vitamin companies throughout the nation”, he mentioned.
Acquired on behalf of the Ghana Well being Service (GHS) by Madam Olivia Mawunyo Timpo, Deputy Director Diet – Household Well being Division, expressed appreciation for WHO’s continued help, noting that the supply of those supplies will improve capability constructing and be sure that vitamin companies are successfully built-in into main well being care supply. She conveyed the division’s appreciation to UNICEF and the educational neighborhood for his or her contributions to the doc’s adaptation.
The newly printed ENAs supplies embrace detailed interventions, pointers for facility-based workers, and standardized coaching sources to make sure efficient implementation of important vitamin actions. These supplies will likely be distributed throughout numerous healthcare services, empowering frontline well being staff to offer complete vitamin companies to communities as a part of a coordinated motion from totally different sectors.
By way of initiatives like this, WHO and GHS proceed to work collectively to reinforce Ghana’s well being safety and be sure that vitamin companies stay a core element of the nation’s journey towards UHC.
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