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March 13, 2024
The Deputy Minister designate for Health Alexander Akwasi Acquah said climate change has a lot to do with malaria control and dispel the notion held by many that as a developing country climate change does not relate to us.
According to him as a member of the Health Committee of Ghana’s Parliament that embarked on a visit to Chicago in America for a tropical medicine meeting, they learnt a lot and his take away from the conference was that climate change is close to the third world country than we think.
He made the disclosure at his vetting on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 when his colleague Gifty Twum Apofoh wanted to know his take away as a member of the Health Committee that visited Chicago on a conference on tropical medicine.
Again, we noticed that, “for us to control malaria very well we need to focus on climate change to make it easier for us to study the agent of malaria which is the mosquito. Climate change has a lot to do with it, since I came I have been doing a lot of reading around it”.
The nominee further pointed out that as someone who is in the private health care business he would advice his Minister when approved for government to do more to encourage the private sector to move into private health care delivery.
And pointed out that in the develop world the concentration is on tertiary health care and one requires a lot of capital to secure primary health care.
He called for more private participation and the private people coming on board more especially to ensure Community ownership.
“ Also with my experience it become easier to look at policies and advice my minister to get more people to invest in private health care, so far so good the health insurance has given ability for a lot of people to come into private health care’, he emphasized.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com