A total of 875,336 people were reached through the "Pandemic Management in Catchment Communities in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond" module, while another 275,747 benefitted from the "Comprehensive Pandemic Management for Employees, Families, and Communities" module.
This was disclosed during the close-out ceremony of the three-year programme, which spanned seven regions of the country.

The event took place in Accra on Thursday. The initiative was funded through the develoPPP programme by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in collaboration with nine private sector partners.

Speaking to the media, Dr. Holger Till, the Team Lead for the develoPPP Ghana project at GIZ, credited the programme's success to the strong public-private partnerships formed between all stakeholders involved.

"The key highlights we've seen is the impressive number of people reached. More than one million people reached in the last three years and looking at their health outcomes, which really improved," he said.

Dr. Till stated that the initiative also included screenings for diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and other cardiac issues, as well as cervical and breast cancer.
As a result, awareness of these health conditions increased by over 33 per cent.

"A healthy worker is a productive worker." He explained that the programme focused on improving the well-being of employees, their families, and communities," he emphasized.

Dr. Till also called for stronger collaboration among stakeholders to expand the initiative's impact.