CIAO DATE: 04/2011
March 2011
In 2009 President Atta Mills and the National Democratic Congress came to power in Ghana on a promise to deliver a truly universal health insurance scheme that reflected the contribution of all the country’s residents. The promise included guaranteed access to free health care in all public institutions, and to cut down the health insurance bureaucracy in order to ‘plough’ back the savings into health care services. Health was put at the heart of the government’s development agenda to transform Ghana into a middle-income country by 2015. These were good promises that won large-scale popular support. Unfortunately they still remain unfulfilled.
Resource link: Achieving a Shared Goal: Free universal health care in Ghana [PDF] - 1.9M