Chip Title: | Ghana Health Services CHIP |
Participant(s): | Mr. Rudolf Abugnaba-Abanga Mr. John Alale Abugri |
Organization: | Ghana Health Services |
Year: | 2012 |
Country: | Ghana |
Region: | Western_Africa |
Presentation (PDF)
CHIP Plan (PDF)
Details
Mission Statement
Provide christian centered, humane,and sustainable basic health services encompassing preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health services through community participation and in collaboration with the Ghana Health Services and other stakeholders
Services or products
- Clinical care
- Child Health Services
- Maternal Health service
- Nutrition Rehabilitative services
- Community Mental Health
- Primary Eye Care
- Adolescent Health Services
Customers
- Children
- Adolescents
- Women
- Men
- Mentally challenged
What needs are you satisfying or benefits are you creating for these customers?
- Immunization
- Antenatal
- Delivery
- Postnatal
- Family planning
- Treatment of diseases and referral
- Ambulance services
- Eye care
- Health education and promotion
What needs are you not meeting?
- Use of modern contraceptives
- Skilled Attendants for delivery
What values do your leaders and key stakeholders (shareholders, staff, patients, community members, etc.) believe in and share? Are these values reflected in your mission statement?
- Human dignity and respect
- Love and compassion
- Quality
- Cultural values
- Motivation
Revised Mission Statement.
Provide christian centered and sustainable basic clinical,preventive and rehabilitative health services through well motivated staff and community participation.
Goals and Objectives
Goal 1:
Increase utilization of modern contraceptives among women in Project area.
SMART Objective for Goal 1:
Increase the the utilization of contraceptives among women age 15-49yrs from 11.4% to 40% in the project area of Bawku by 2015.
Goal 2:
Improve the use of skilled attendants for delivery
SMART Objective for Goal 2:
Increased skilled delivery from 73% to 95% in the Project area of Bolgatanga by 2015
Critical Problems or Issues to Address
- 24 hr availability of midwives to conduct deliveries
- Socio-cultural barriers to using health facilities for delivery
- Financial barriers to using health facilities for delivery
- Non availabilty of refferal services to higher levels
GOAL:
Improve the use of Skilled attendants for Delivery
OBJECTIVE
Increased skilled deliveries from 73% to 95% in the project area of Bolgatanga by 2015.
Strategic Options:
Develop at least two potential strategic options to achieve your goal and objective (you will select one of these strategic options as your CHIP):
Strategic option 1:
EXPANDING PHYSICAL ACCESS TO MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES
1. Provision of 24 hour delivery services in rural clinics:
Rural areas in the Upper East Region of Ghana are usually hard to reach and lack social ameneties. These difficult conditions make it difficult to attract and retain critical staff like midwives. Most of these staff who pick up posting in these areas stay partially in these communities, therefore compromising the availability of 24 hour delivery services.
2. Community Sensitization and Participation
Socio- cultural barriers also influence the the utilisation of skilled attendants for delivery, as delivery is considered sacred and is associated with some beliefs and cultural rites which make it difficult for them to deliver at the clinic. This situation is further compounded with low literacy rates which makes it difficult for the pouplation to understand and utilise health messages. Finally, the decision makers on where a woman can deliver is the landlords/husbands, who are old and mostly not present at community sensitization forums.
Strategic option 2:
POLICY INFLUENCING
This strategy targets lower level decision makers at the Region, Districts and Sub-districts to influence decisions, that will involve community members in planning, implementation and monitoring of programs including efficient feedback mechanism.
EXPANDING PHYSICAL ACCESS TO MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES
3E. ROI for CHIP
What measures can you track to calculate your CHIP's Return on Investment (ROI)? For example, costs of project vs. revenue gained as a result of implementation, costs of CHIP vs. cost savings to your organization or system.