The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has inaugurated a 16-member governing board to steer the affairs of the Ghana Association of Quasi-Government Health Institutions (GAQHI).
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, will chair the newly constituted board.
They have been tasked with instituting measures to collaborate with the ministry to see how best they can collect data and come out with a more efficient health database index.
The members include; Michael A. Luguje, [Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbour], Dr. Charlotte Osafo, [Medical Director of the Bank Hospital], Bice Osei Kuffuor, [Managing Director of the Ghana Post Company Limited], and Emelia Agyei-Mensah, the Registrar of the University of Ghana.
Others are Professor Samuel B. Dampare, [Director-General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission], Dr. Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, [Representative of the Ministry of Health], Rev. Prof. John Frank Eshun, [the Vice-Chancellor of the Takoradi Technical University], Brigadier General Nii Adjah Obodai, [the Commander of the 37 Military Hospital], and Commissioner of Police (COP) Dr. Ebenezer Ewusi Emim, Medical Director of the Police Hospital.
The rest are Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa, [a former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service], Dr. Kabiru Koredele Azeez, [President of GAQHI], Dr. Moses Maclean Abnory, [Representative of the founding fathers of GAQHI], Dr. F. Kofi Asiedu, [Representative of past presidents of GAQHI], Dr. Vitus Victor Anaab-Bisi, [Vice-President of the association], and Chief Maxwell Tidow, the General Secretary of GAQHI.
They were subsequently sworn into office by the Health Minister to commence their duties as soon as possible.
Mr. Agyeman-Manu expressed his profound gratitude to the Ghana Association of Quasi-Government Health Institution (GAQHI) for partnering with the Ministry of Health to improve the healthcare delivery system in the country.
In the acceptance speech, Prof Agyeman Badu Akosa, on behalf of the board, assured the minister that the institution will play its role in feeding the health sector database and keep its data for publication.
