Scheme to make healthcare convenient launched
A research firm, the Organisation and System Limited (OSL), has launched the Convenient Healthcare Access Scheme (CHAS),intended to make healthcare convenient and accessible to Ghanaians.
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This system, which is a collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the firm, is aimed at reducing queues at healthcare facilities as members under the scheme would have access to healthcare personnel at their convenient locations.
Briefing journalists on Monday in Accra, the Executive Director of OSL, Nana Kwasi Amo, noted that the scheme which was currently being piloted at the Ridge Hospital in Accra, aimed at reducing the doctor- patient ratio.According to Nana Kwasi Amo, the current doctor-patient ratio stood at one doctor to 13,000 patients and this had made accessing healthcare inconvenient to Ghanaians, hence the need to implement innovative measures at making the sector very convenient and accessible.He said that the scheme would keep healthcare personnel at their posts to take care of more patients.
“We realised that most doctors at the public hospitals do additional work at the private hospitals so we developed this initiative for them to take care of patients after working hours, unless members who needed home services where the doctor must go and attend to him or her” he added.
He also said that the CHAS had managed to register about a thousand doctors under the scheme and that the scheme would be extended to other regions as more doctors were registered under the scheme.
Additionally, data of patients had been collected in order to deploy them to doctors during emergency periods.
“The scheme is developed in a way that patients are allocated to doctors in their (patients) locality so there is no way patients at Dansoman would be assigned to a doctor at North Kaneshie”, he noted.
Nana Amo added that the CHAS was assisting the government through the National Health Insurance Scheme,(NHIS), to make healthcare delivery convenient and accessible to Ghanaians and urged individuals and organisations to subscribe to the scheme.
