Ghana needs specialist nurses where disease burden is highest – Health Minister

Akandoh said the Government’s health reforms, including Free Primary Healthcare, the National Health Insurance Scheme and the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, popularly known as Mahama Cares, were creating a continuum of care that required corresponding investment in specialist human resources.

Kwabena Mintah Akandoh is the Minister for Health The Minister of Health,Kwabena Mintah Akandoh,has said that specialist training must be linked to deployment, career development and the availability of appropriate equipment and institutional support to ensure that investments in human resources translated into improved patient outcomes.

The two speakers stressed the need for closer collaboration between academic and clinical institutions to ensure that specialist training remained relevant to the realities of Ghana’s health system.