According to him, the healthcare strategy will deal with folks who seek out health care products and services at the district stage and decreased.
“We have costed it. It is going to charge us $18 million… in that plan, we are saying that any person who goes to a district hospital and below [will get] no cost overall health treatment,” he mentioned.
Giving insights on how the strategy will be implemented if the NDC wins the 2020 basic elections, Alex Segbefia claimed “The approach is to leave regional hospitals to offer with the much more critical instances which they are intended for.
“It is clogging up our regional and tertiary establishments for issues that can be performed elsewhere. We have to transfer the persons to spots where by they can be dealt with from the CHPS compounds to the well being centres to the polyclinics, to the district hospitals.”
“We have just taken $100 million beneath COVID. We have taken yet another $1 billion as a personal loan. You imply as a place, we can not find an added $18 million to give cost-free health care from district hospitals and down below?” he queried.
John Mahama unveiling his working mate, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, stated the healthcare plan will be applied to ensure that each the younger and aged have totally free primary health care.
“We will implement a totally free most important healthcare approach. This will make the provision of major wellness care to all Ghanaians, younger and aged, totally free,” he explained.