Free Primary Healthcare Will Cost GHC1.4b Annually - John Mahama

NDC Flagbearer John Mahama has promised to provide what he calls urgent transformational solutions to the challenges confronting the county’s health sector if he wins the December elections. The initiative will include the free primary healthcare initiative intended to provide healthcare to all Ghanaians including the vulnerable.

According to John Mahama, the initiative will cost GHC1.4b annually which will be the single largest social intervention program in Ghana. He was addressing the third leadership dialogue series organized by the Center for Social Justice for Professional Groups. He said “at this rate, we are nowhere achieving health for all by the

year 2030. My brothers and sisters, the situation may actually be more critical and dire than we realized. This state of affairs is a transverse that flies in the face of social justice and as a social democrat speaking on the platform of the center for social justice, I wish to reiterate that we owe the poor and vulnerable groups in

our society an urgent transformational solution and not a new approach. And this is why I urge you to support the free primary healthcare policy  contained in the NDC’s People’s manifesto.” “This transformational solution to our health needs free primary healthcare, will provide better healthcare for all Ghanaians including the

poor and vulnerable.” He added that the free primary healthcare policy will provide healthcare for all Ghanaians at no cost. In district hospitals,  polyclinics, clinics, health centers and CHIPS compounds. Free primary healthcare will be the single largest social intervention under the fourth republic. It will create jobs for nurses, midwives, physician assistants, drugstore owners, pharmacists, doctors, IT professionals, and many others.” “We estimate to spend GHC1.4b annually on free primary healthcare from December 2021,” he noted.