By Laudia Anyorkor Nunoo, GNA
Tema, March 30, GNA — The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate (TMHD) has held its 2025 annual performance review, bringing together stakeholders to deliberate and plan for quality healthcare delivery in the metropolis.
The performance review forms part of efforts to improve upon health service delivery and collaboration between stakeholders in the Tema metropolis and the health directorate.
Presentations were made on various sectors of health delivery services in the metropolis, the National Ambulance Service, and Port Health.
Presenting the metro’s holistic performance, Mr Daniel Andoh, TMHD’s Information Officer, stated the assessment comprised three objectives: “Universal access to better and efficiently managed quality healthcare services; “Reduce avoidable maternal, adolescent and child deaths and disabilities”; and “Increase access to responsive clinical and public health emergency services.”
Mr Andoh, in a presentation, highlighted that the metro did extremely well by exceeding its target in some indicators such as proportion of NHIS claims submitted on time, proportion of goods and services budget allocated to health research activities, midwife to women in fertility age (WIFA) population ratio, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV testing coverage rate, and proportion of functional community-based health planning and services (CHPS) zones.
He, however, added that the metro scored red in other indicators such as doctor population geographical equity index, percentage of children 6-59 months receiving routine Vitamin A, institutional maternal mortality ratio per 100,000, institutional neonatal mortality rate per 1,000, ART coverage rate, TB treatment success rate, and percentage of targeted population who attended wellness clinic at the district hospital during a year.
He said the key focus areas for the review covered maternal mortality rate, vitamin A coverage, stillbirth rate, neonatal mortality rate, antibiotic usage, TB indicators, and HIV indicators.
The information officer said some challenges encountered by his outfit included no reporting and late data entries by facilities and inconsistencies in reporting and inadequate data entry logistics such as computers and the internet.
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Edited by Linda Asante Agyei