Ten selected Districts receive motor bikes



The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has donated 10 YAMAHA Motor Bikes to 10 selected districts to facilitate the African Health Markets  for Equity (AHME) program.

The five-year AHME program is aimed to increase healthcare equality within the private provider system and address priority issues that most affect the poor in Ghana.

It is being implemented in Ghana by a consortium of partners with complementary expertise of the International Finance Corporation/World Bank Health in Africa initiative; Marie-Stoppes International and PharmAccess Foundation.

The beneficiary districts are Ledzokuku Krowor, Ashaiman, Ho, Adaklu, Ejisu Juaben, Afigya Kwabre, East Akim, Fanteakwa, Bolgatanga and Kasena Nankana.

Mr Victor Forfoe, Director of Finance and Administration, MoGCSP, who presented the Motor Bikes to the District Social Welfare Officers, said the AHME programme would also improve identification of the poor using electronic means-test system.

He said at the end of the project, AHME expects to have added 150,000 households, 900,000 persons and 70,000 extreme poor onto the national household data.

Mr Forfoe said the bikes will assist the district social welfare officers to reach the extremely poor in the remotest parts of Ghana and register them on the Ministry’s social protection programmes such as the National Health Insurance Scheme, Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, among others.

Mr Richard Adjetey, acting Director, Social Protection, said they would be inaugurating District Social Protection Committees and Community Social Protection Committees to monitor the programme in all the districts.

He appealed to the District Welfare Officers not to use the bikes until those committees were officially formed and inaugurated.

“The bikes are donor-funded and we are urging you to use it for the intended purpose to achieve the goals at the end of the project,” he added.

 
SOURCE: GNA