By Albert Allotey
Accra, Oct. 27, GNA – More than 30 divisional health staff of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have completed a four-day capacity building training with a call for the review of the community scorecard action plan by adding more columns to the tracker.
This would help to differentiate between the root cause of the bottleneck in health delivery while adding the name of the programme under which the problem falls.
The workshop was organised by the GHS, in collaboration with the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA).
It was facilitated by Mr Emmanuel Ayire Adongo, a Consultant, and Dr Ketema Aschenaki Bizuneh, Senior Programme Coordinator-RMNCAH both from ALMA.
The participants were taken through orientation onreproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH&N) and community scorecard (CSC) application.
The training was to enable them to understand the operations of the online scorecard tool and how to use it for action.
It also aimed at helping them to understand the nutrition scorecard indicators and thresholds, identify routine management mechanisms into which the tool will be integrated, and learn how to access and use it.
Mr Adongo said communities in Ghana used the scorecard for accountability and action and each qualitative indicator wasassigned a value from One to Three, “where one is bad, two is average, and three is good.”
“Ghana has four scorecards; RMNCAH, malaria, community, and nutrition and the RMNCAH and malaria indicators are based on the priorities from the National Strategic Plan.”
Mr Adongo said it was important to strengthen regular scorecard utilization at all levels, including the regional and district levels, through the assemblies.
Dr Bizuneh, on his part, urged health workers to effectively use the scorecard tool to improve health delivery.
“As the CSC is for information sharing it could also be used for advocacy for resource mobilization.”
Dr Chris Opoku Fofie, the Deputy Director, Reproductive and Family Health, GHS, in a closing remark, expressed gratitude to the participants for their hard work throughout the four-day session.
He urged them not to rest on their oars but to continue to share the knowledge acquired with their colleagues for holistic health delivery.
The participants received certificates of participation.
GNA