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The Quality Health Partners project, or QHP, is one of several bilateral health projects funded by USAID/Ghana. QHP has worked with the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service to improve the quality and availability of health services, with emphasis on reproductive and child health services. The package of services covered includes Safe Motherhood, prevention and treatment of childhood illness, malaria prevention and treatment, family planning, HIV/AIDS and related infections such as tuberculosis.
With USAID support, QHP provides technical and financial assistance for a wide range of activities, including policy development, training, supervision and quality assurance, and provision of both purchased and donated equipment and medical supplies.
USAID aims to assist the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service achieve the country's Millenium Development Goals related to Maternal and Child Health. These goals, specifically MDGs 4 and 5, call for significant reductions in deaths of children under five and pregnant women.
USAID's efforts are focused in the seven southern regions of Ghana, and in 30 target districts that were selected by the Ministry of Health and USAID on the basis of being considered more deprived than others in terms of poverty levels and health indicators.
To date, QHP has supported the Ghana Health Service in the training of over 6,000 health staff from nearly 200 facilities. These trainings have covered topics such as antenatal care, life-saving skills and emergency obstetric care for pregnant women, diagnosis and treatment of childhood illness, family planning methods and communicable disease surveillance and response. In addition, the trainings have included cross-cutting topics such as improved supervision, quality assurance and problem-solving. QHP has provided technical support for these training events and has also provided nearly $3 million in the form of sub-grants with the regions and national units to support training, policy development and improved monitoring and supervision of health care. A further round of sub-grants will be made in the near future.
QHP and USAID have been working with colleagues from the Office of Defense Cooperation at the American Embassy in Accra over the past couple of years to explore opportunities for donation of medical equipment and supplies to supplement those that are directly procured with project funds. The present shipment is the third one resulting from these efforts, with previous shipments having benefited health facilities in Central and Volta Regions.
This present shipment consists of three containers with a variety of surgical equipment, other medical instruments, hospital beds, stools, examination tables and consumable supplies, the total value of which is over $475,000. A distribution plan has been developed based on data collected from health facilities in the 30 target districts and their regional hospitals. A total of more than 75 facilities will benefit from this donation. We are confident that these items will be put to good use to improve the quality of services at Ghana Health Service facilities.
We are honored to be working with the dedicated Ghana Health Service staff and want to express our deep gratitude to our USAID, Office of Defense Cooperation and U.S. Embassy colleagues who have helped make these donations possible. In particular QHP would like to thank Major Tong Vang of the Office of Defense Cooperation, who was instrumental in ensuring the delivery of these equipment.
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