Make health the centre of development-Akosa

' Accra, 26 Oct, GNA - Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, has called for the prioritization of health care as a means to attaining national development.

He said the state of health of the people should be regarded as one of the most important determinants of the rate of development of the country.

"The current social determinants of nation have caused the people to live in poverty and that carry high disease burden, which is linked with their compromised levels of nutrition, food security and their poor occupational and environmental conditions".