Intra-health International launched in Ghana

Accra, July 10, GNA - Intra-health International Incorporated, a new non-governmental organisation (NGO), which aims at improving health delivery and ensuring health care service for people world wide, was on Thursday launched in Accra.

The NGO, which is affiliated to the University of North Carolina, United States, would help to improve the performances of primary health providers in the country, under the USAID Prime II project, which is currently being implemented worldwide.

Launching the NGO, Mr William Sampson, its Ghana Team Leader, said Intra-health had worked in collaboration with Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Services as well as other health bodies at the community levels in ensuring effective health delivery in the country.

He said such collaborative work spanned from performance improvement and training activities that benefited a wide variety of health care workers in areas such as family planning, reproductive health, and safe motherhood.

Mr Sampson said the NGO was currently expanding its activities to include human capacity development for health care systems, enhancing the quality of essential services for reproductive health and family planning, Others areas are maternal and child health cares as well as health policy and organisational reforms.

Mr Sampson said the NGO's vision was to be a premier global organisation that would offer solutions to health care challenges with clear value and measurable results. Dr Ken Sagoe, Director, Human resources Development Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said, GHS shared with the NGO the same policies and mission.

He pledged the GHS's preparedness to work in partnership with the NGO to provide good quality health. Dr Frank Nyonator, Director Policy Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation of the GHS urged Intra-health to extend its support to the community level