Access to medical care: No ‘protocol’ …GHS D-G declares

Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea is the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service. He has called for an end to the practice of needing connections to access medical care in public hospitals.

He described this situation as unacceptable. Every Ghanaian deserves equal access to healthcare, he emphasized. This should be true regardless of social status or affiliation.

“No Ghanaian should go to the hospital and need to know somebody before being treated,” he stated. “That should be a thing of the past.”

Prof. Akoriyea made these remarks during a visit to the New Times Corporation. This organization publishes The Ghanaian Times and Spectator newspapers in Accra.