Prez Akufo-Addo Hopeful About Robust Health System Post-Coronavirus Pandemic

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed the hope that the country will have robust public health system after successfully dealing with the covid-19 pandemic.

According to Akufo-Addo, the end of the process, the collective experiences and lessons drawn would help build a stronger public health system which will serve as a really positive legacy of the pandemic.

President Akufo-Addo stated this when he interacted with the leadership of groups under the health services in Accra yesterday [April 8, 2020].

The groups are the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH), the Allied Health Professionals, Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anesthetics and the Ghana Physicians Assistants Association.

The president commended the health workers for the job done so far and said “I feel strongly that if we work in transparency and openness, we will arrive at that situation and that can only be to the good of all of us”.

He noted that his government took the bold decision to offer the incentives to health workers in the fight against the pandemic because if they were not fully motivated, it would be difficult for the society to deal with the pandemic.

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The President said the situation had also revealed the deficiencies in the society in that after six decades of independence, Ghana had not built an economy that would make it easy to adjust and respond easily to such crisis.

President Akufo-Addo said the government was aware that it had to deal with the reality of the many shortfalls in the system.