Dr. Aaron Ofei, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Health Services, has appealed to health service administrators and managers to strive to develop their health institutions into centres of excellence in spite of logistical shortfalls.
He said even though there were a lot of less endowed hospitals and clinics in the system, it was still important for them to upgrade and
develop such centres because they were the nerve wire of health care delivery.
"Since accreditation of health centres places much obligation on facilities, tools and systems for hospitals' needs to be set up to make such accredited institutions more equipped to deliver", Dr Ofei said.
Dr Odei made the appeal at a half year two-day review meeting organised for health administrators, managers and health personnel in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
He called on the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to ensure regular and prompt payment of premiums to accredited health service
providers to enable them to render quality services to clients.
Dr. Ofei described as unprecedented the number of maternal deaths recorded in the region between January and June, this year, which stood at
44.
"You must make sure pregnant women leave the hospitals alive. Delays in seeing to their early treatment must not be countenanced", he said.
Dr Ofei said there was the need to set up functional emergency and accident centres, well resourced with critical, well groomed and efficient
nursing staff.