Medical Laboratory Specialists call for expedited action on salary scale placement

Modern healthcare The Director-General of the GHS underscored the indispensable role of medical laboratory services in healthcare delivery, stressing that there could be "no modern health care without quality laboratory services".

We will need more diagnostic equipment, and we will deploy them gradually," the GHS Director-General assured Commitment The Ministry of Health reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening medical laboratory services through improved financing, workforce development and greater involvement of laboratory managers in health care decision-making.

To address these challenges, he highlighted ongoing reforms aimed at improving financing for laboratory services through the restructuring of the National Health Insurance Fund and Ghana's evolving three-tier health financing system, comprising Free Primary Health Care, the National Health Insurance Scheme and the Ghana Medical Trust Fund.