MP advocates use of NHIS Fund to reduce neonatal mortalities

Member of Parliament for Madina Alhaji Amadu Sorogho, has appealed to members of parliament to use their National Health Insurance (NHIS) Fund to help address maternal and neonatal mortalities in their constituencies.

He explained that the current maternal mortality of 350 per 100 thousand live births is unacceptable and there is the need to marshal resources to curb the situation.

Speaking to the media after a five-day training on Accountability Loop Budget Advocacy (ALBA), at a workshop for stronger ealth budget advocacy in Harare, Zimbabwe, Alhaji Sorogho, urged his colleague MPs to liaise with their Metropolitan, Municipal and District Health Directors to help them with the list of items and equipment they need so that they can help in saving the lives of women and babies.

The workshop was organised by Harmonisation for Health in Africa. 

Alhaji Sorogho said there is the need to strengthen the health system in the country to address the bottlenecks of human resource, provision of basic equipment as well as functional referral system.

He also expressed concern at the slow implementation of Ghana’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Accelerated Framework, which is to identify effective evidence-based interventions for the realisation of the MDGs with focus on improving maternal health at the level of both community and health care facilities.

GNA