Ghana Healthcare

State of Healthcare in Ghana

The current state of healthcare in Ghana can be summarized as underdeveloped. Many parts of the country are not industrialized and suffer from preventable conditions and diseases due to poor water quality and sanitation problems. The country also shares many issues that are also present in many other regions in Africa such as the spread of malaria and HIV. Although Africa only has eleven percent of the world's population, it has over sixty percent of the world's HIV / AIDS cases and roughly ninety percent of the world's malaria cases, mainly in children under five[footnoteRef:1]. [1: (News Medical)]

The healthcare system is primarily provided by the government and administered by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Services. There are different levels of health care that serve as an overall health network. Although there are some Western style for-profit facilities, these account...
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