Most of our health facilities are not in the best shape – GRNMA

President of Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo has lamented the poor state of health facilities in the country.

While acknowledging that health facility like the University of Ghana Medical Care (UGMC) is in a better condition, the health professional questioned why most health facilities have been left in poor conditions by successive governments.

She asserted that various successive governments have done little to better conditions of health facilities across the country.

Speaking at Media General’s Health Forum themed: “State and Future of Health Facilities: Reimaging healthcare in Ghana” organised on May 7, 2025, Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo noted that health infrastructures, equipment for professionals to work with, the drainage systems in hospitals, amongst others are not in a proper shape to help the health professionals feel good to work in these facilities.

“When you take the health facilities, when you move from the capitals, the regions and go to the districts and then move lower down to the health center CHIPS compounds, these facilities are actually not in the best of shapes. Even with some of those facilities within our capitals, the regional hospitals and the teaching hospitals, it is not in the best shape,” she stated.

According to her, health facilities across the country do not receive funds from government and rely on internally generated funds which has stagnated the improvement of health facilities across the country.

“As we speak now, all our health facilities rely on internally generated fund (IGFs) that is why he was showing the stats you saw that OPD services up to about 99% needs to be paid for,” she stressed.

She called on government to pay attention to health facilities in the country and provide the requisite resources for these facilities.

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