General News of Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2018-12-11
Debate about the drones has been done mostly on political grounds
The implementation of the newly approved drone health delivery system has suffered a major setback with the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) calling for its suspension.
Barely hours after the policy was approved by Parliament, the implementation agency insists the drone policy is at variance with the primary health care delivery system in the country.
While the Association insists it is not against the use of technology in its service delivery it insists the drone delivery services are not a priority.
“The proposed services to be provided by the drones do not conform to the primary healthcare policy in Ghana where different levels of care have different capacities to perform specific functions.
“The use of drones without the necessary improvement in the human resource capacity will not inure to the benefit of the country in its quest to ..
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