The partnership between the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Health Community of West Africa (HCOWA), a Ghana-based Chinese private firm, will help enhance healthcare delivery in the West African country, a health official has said.
ACCRA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The partnership between the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Health Community of West Africa (HCOWA), a Ghana-based Chinese private firm, will help enhance healthcare delivery in the West African country, a health official has said.
Lawrence Ofori-Boadu, director of the Institutional Care Division of the GHS, made the remarks late Monday during the launch of the HCOWA Medical and Academic Exchange Committee. The committee aims to promote collaborative research, academic exchange, innovation, and institutional partnerships.
Ofori-Boadu said Ghana is committed to ensuring that everyone living in the country has timely access to healthcare without barriers, but achieving this goal requires collaboration.
"We need more collaboration with other people who have done it before to support us. This collaboration is timely and at a time when we need innovation to speed up our processes," Ofori-Boadu said.
Moreover, he said the collaboration would support Ghana's transition into the digital health era, including digital laboratory systems, digital diagnostics, telemedicine, and digital health communication. These efforts, he said, would contribute significantly to achieving universal health coverage under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Speaking at the event, Yang Yongguang, head of the 14th Chinese medical team to Ghana and a member of the committee, said the long-term cooperation mechanism between China and Ghana could help integrate resources more effectively, improving efficiency and delivering mutual benefits.
"China and Ghana have broad prospects for cooperation in the medical field. Let us strengthen the China-Africa academic exchanges with a more open mind and more pragmatic actions to make greater contributions to the health and well-being of the people of our two countries," Yang said. ■
