2012 Holistic Assessment of Health Sector POW - Ministry of Health

happenings in the medical field. An ICT infrastructure sponsored by MTN was installed and commissioned
during the year.
CHALLENGES
The major challenges of the college include;
1. Developing alternate funding arrangements for post graduate medical education.
2. Maintenance of College building
3. Accreditation for training. The colleges hopes to decentralize training sites but this is dependent on
the state of the health facilities and the availability of relevant supervisors
OUTLOOK FOR 2013
The College will continue with its core functions of producing specialists in medicine, surgery and related
disciplines and develop options for funding post graduate specialist training. It will work with the Ministry
to attract trainees into ‘deprived’ specialties. Efforts will be made to develop sub-specialty training
opportunities in all faculties and implement ICT based education and learning. The college will also support
implementation of WAHO initiative towards harmonization of curricula and accreditation criteria with subregional
Colleges.
5.5 GHANA HEALTH SERVICE
The Ghana Health Service identified 8 main priority areas for improvement in 2012 under the various
health sector objectives. The priorities are as follows:
Health Objective 1:
1. Accelerate scaling up of the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) under the
‘close-to-client’ service delivery policy
Health Objective 2
2. Support the finalization the staffing norms and implementing the Human Resource for Health
(HRH) deployment plan in order to provide more skilled middle level health workers for deprived
areas;
3. Increase the strategic use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) for improved health
outcomes, especially as it relates to deployment of DHIMS2
Health Objective 3:
4. Continue implementation of the MDG Acceleration Framework for achieving MDG5, and related
emergency services.
Health Objective 4:
5. Introduce three new vaccines (pneumococcal conjugate, meningitis group A conjugate and
rotavirus) and a second dose of measles into the routine immunization programme;
6. Step up disease control activities, particularly surveillance
Health Objective 5:
7. Support implementation of the Mental Health Bill
8. Improve quality of care in GHS facilities.
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