Conference of Health Service Administrator's of Ghana

NANA KOFI ABUNA V SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE OF HEALTH SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR'S OF GHANA UNDER THE THEME 'SUSTAINING THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME - THE ROLE OF THE HEALTH SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR'

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Hon Minister (Western Region)

Hon Minister of Health

Director General, Ghana Health Services

Western Regional Health Director

The Organizers

The Press

Ladies & Gentlemen

It gives me great pleasure that I welcome you all to the annual continuing professional education conference of Health Service Administrator's of Ghana under the theme 'sustaining the national health insurance scheme - the role of the Health Service Administrator'

Healthcare is a business and, like every business, it needs good management to keep the business running smoothly. We have good and great Health Administrators this morning to have their annual conference to review their administrative work and to further plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise the delivery of healthcare in Ghana.

The health service administrators played a key role in the implementation of the policy at the facility level and together with other managers, the Administrators have responsibility for the efficient management of the health institutions.

For the purpose of this gathering this morning and as part of their objectives to organizes an annual conference in the form of workshops/seminars through which members update their knowledge on emerging issues in the health sector.

The emerging issue now is the role or roles of the Health Service Administrators in sustaining the National Health Insurance Scheme.

I can say this morning that the National Health Insurance Scheme in this Metropolis is making impressive progress in supporting the citizenry especially the poor and the vulnerable to have access to quality health care. But how do we achieve the expected goal and how do we sustain the already chalked successes recorded despite the numerous challenges being faced by the Scheme.

The meeting should be able to access the schemes performance, monitor their expenditure pattern, making constructive suggestions to the managers and the entire management team with the view to increasing the Scheme area of coverage.

As we all listen to all the resource persons invited, I believe we will be more equipped and update our knowledge to sustain the National Health Insurance Scheme.

Once again, I salute the purposefulness of the organizers as I welcome all to this educational conference.

Thank you and God bless you all.