5 Donor Partners to support health sector

The Government of Ghana and five of its donor partners have resolved to set up a health account into which the donors will contribute 65 per cent of their support to the health sector for the next five years, says another Daily Graphic story.

This, unlike previously, is to afford the government the opportunity to use the funds in the account to finance priority programmes in the health sector. The Government's priority areas for the next five years are the control of HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and guinea worm.

Other areas include the setting up of the health insurance scheme, human resource development in the form of providing incentives for doctors, and how to deal with the brain drain problem. The Partners are the Denmark, the Netherlands, the European Commission, the Department for International Development (DFID) of UK, and the World Bank.