WHO builds Ghana’s capacity to respond to health emergencies

Various personnel across the health sector, including animal and environmental experts, have undergone a training programme that was aimed at building the capacity of Ghana’s health system.

The programme, organised by the World Heath Organisation (WHO) and Africa CDC, was to equip the health professionals to handle any health emergency that might occur in future.

Dubbed: WHO scoping mission —  the training also sought to identify areas in which additional capacities and competencies could be developed here in Ghana.

The African region had in recent years been faced with a number of public health emergencies, including COVID-19 pandemic which exposed the gaps in the continent’s ability to handle these emergencies – limited health workforce, poor information management and weak health systems.

Model country

At the scoping mission, the WHO country representative to Ghana, Professor Francis Kasolo, said although Ghana was credited to have responded well to the COVID-19 pandemic and other outbreaks, they wanted it to be a model country in terms of health emergencies.

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