By Alex Gyawu Asante
Bodi (WN/R), July 24, GNA – The Sefwi Bodi District Health Directorate has reviewed its 2025 mid-year performance, urging midwives to intensify efforts toward quality maternal care while highlighting infrastructure needs and the rollout of new health access policies.
It was held on the theme: “Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Network of Practice, the Role of the Midwife.”
Mr Noah Quam, the Bodi District Health Director, speaking at the event appealed to the health workers especially the midwives to put in more efforts to ensure that every mother, newborns, and their families had access to safe, skilled and compassionate care delivery during childbirth.
Mr Quam said it was not just a goal but a fundamental human right, saying; “You can only be called a good midwife when you are useful, and do more than you are doing as expected of you”.
He said the Ghana Health Service (GHS) would soon roll-out education and information programmes on cancer to educate young people on the disease.
He appealed to the Bodi District Assembly to find a well-equipped office space for the Health Directorate, stating that their current office space could not accommodate all the officers at the directorate.
Mr Lord Duckson, a Public Health Officer at the District Health Directorate, told the officers that the management of the GHS had introduced a policy called a Network of Practice (NOP) where every citizen would have access to healthcare service delivery without difficulties in the next five years.
“As part of this policy, every town or village will have health facilities for easy accessibility to care, and in view of this Amoaya and Suiano health centres have been selected as points for referral cases for the Network of Practice (NOP),” he added.
Mr Stephen Martey, Project Manager for World Vision, a non-governmental organisation based in the Bodi District, assured them of their commitment to support the Health Directorate to improve upon its operational mandate.
GNA
Edited by Justina Paaga/Audrey Dekalu