“Our function is to make sure that everybody, all over has access to the health services they require, no matter where they live”, stated Dr Fiona Braka WHO Ghana Representative.
ForWHO, that dedication indicates surpassing nationwide workplaces to comprehend what health care appears like where individuals live, work and look for care.
Over 3 days, from 28 to 30 September 2026, a WHO Ghana group led by the WHO Representative, Dr Braka, checked out the Upper East Region and engaged health authorities, frontline health employees, scientists and port health workers throughout an area where location, range and cross-border motion include layers of intricacy to providing health services.
Dr Braka was accompanied on the objective by Dr Rockson Michael Adjei, Vaccine Communication and Demand Generation Officer, and Christopher Tamal, Technical Officer for Public Health Emergencies, bringing viewpoints on immunisation and public health emergency situation readiness to the engagements.
Surrounding Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east, the Upper East Region is tactically crucial to Ghana’s health security. At the exact same time, lots of neighborhoods throughout the area depend upon a health system that should reach them throughout fars away and differing levels of gain access to.
The orientation see, for that reason, offered more than a chance to satisfy local stakeholders. It brought WHO closer to the truths of health service shipment on the ground; from the Regional Health Directorate and health care centers to the zonal research study organization and the nation’s border.
The see started with a courtesy contact the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Akamugri Donatus Atanga, where conversations concentrated on the Region’s health top priorities and the value of ongoing partnership to enhance health results.
The Regional Minister invited the WHO delegation and required the Region to get specific factor to consider in health interventions, provided its vulnerability and tactical area along Ghana’s borders with Burkina Faso and Togo.
He kept in mind that restricted job opportunity had actually added to the vulnerability of some neighborhoods, while the area’s distance to neighbouring nations positioned extra needs on its health centers. Individuals going into Ghana through the Region, consisting of those looking for security and much better living conditions, likewise gain access to health services in the Region, including pressure to currently restricted resources.
He revealed gratitude to WHO for its ongoing assistance to the Region and stated the Regional Coordinating Council and health authorities stayed all set to deal with WHO and other partners to advance Ghana’s health program.
“We are grateful to WHO for the assistance it continues to offer to the Upper East Region. As a Region, we are all set to play our part beforehand the nationwide health program, and we likewise eagerly anticipate even more powerful assistance and partnership to attend to the specific requirements of our individuals” he stated.
From the local level, the group continued to engage the Regional Health Directorate and senior health supervisors, getting updates on the Region’s health circumstance, accomplishments, obstacles and top priorities.
The objective then moved more detailed to neighborhoods, going to the Bongo District Directorate, Bongo District Hospital, Namoo Health Centre and Lungo Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS).
At each stop, the WHO group engaged health employees and got updates on service shipment, the obstacles dealing with frontline groups and efforts to bring necessary health care better to neighborhoods.
The engagements provided a first-hand view of the health system at various levels, from district management and medical facility care to main and community-based services, and the work needed to make sure that individuals in underserved neighborhoods were not left. Specific issues were notedd about maternal death and interventions to attend to the concern were gone over.
At the Navrongo Health Research Centre, the group got an instruction on the Centre’s work and its partnership with WHO, highlighting the function of research study and proof generation in forming health policies and reinforcing health systems.
The objective likewise took WHO closer to among the Region’s essential health security frontiers. At the Naamo Border, the group explored the Point of Entry and engaged Port Health and Immigration officers on their work, consisting of the value of monitoring, coordination and readiness in safeguarding neighborhoods while helping with cross-border motion.
For Dr Braimah Baba Abubakari, Regional Director of Health Services, these engagements offered an essential chance to link the truths on the ground with the assistance and collaborations required to reinforce the Region’s health system.
“We are handling a health system that should serve neighborhoods throughout various settings, while likewise reacting to the truths of our area as a border area. Continued cooperation with WHO assists us reinforce the systems, labor force and services that our individuals depend upon”he stated.
For WHO, the function of the go to was eventually easy: to listen, comprehend and enhance partnership around the health concerns of the Region.
“You can not completely comprehend the health requirements of a neighborhood from behind a desk. We require to be where the work is occurring, listen to individuals providing services and comprehend the difficulties they deal with. That is how we can make our assistance more responsive and make sure that health reaches everybody, all over”Dr Braka stated.
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