Effective public private partnership critical to accessing quality healthcare
By: Roselyn Ganyaglo.
The Minister of Health, Kweku Agyemang Manu, says public private partnership in the health sector is critical to expand access to healthcare, as well as building the capacity of practitioners.
He said the world is in an era of preventive and evidence-based medicine, where diagnostics and research are pushing the frontier of delivering quality healthcare.
In a speech read for him at the unveiling of Biosciences Laboratory in Accra, Dr. Agyemang Manu said the timely detection and diagnosis help in reducing communicable and non-communicable diseases, because precision medicine comes in handy.
Revna Biosciences Laboratory seeks to ensure that patients receive prompt, high quality and advanced molecular diagnostic tests known as precision medicine.
This new approach offers more specific insights about individual medical issues and help to minimize guess work.
Dr. Kwaku Agyemang Manu in a speech read for him, pledged government’s support to Revna to position Ghana strategically on the research and diagnostic platform.
Chief Executive Officer of the facility, Derrick Edem Akpalu said technological advancement calls for new ways of treating patients using their genes and other information.
He bemoaned the low diagnostic penetration in Ghana and the sub region. This is why the facility comes at an opportune time.
The Director, of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Prof. Dorothy Yeboah Manu urged research facilities in the country to work towards building a robust health research system.
She said Diagnostics play a key role in healthcare and impacts economies therefore building capacity to detect is a step in the right direction.
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