The World Health Organization (WHO) has organized training to strengthen the capacity of women health leaders to help deliver a more robust health system in Ghana.
A statement copied to the GNA said the training formed part of the Health Workforce Program and is supported by the United Kingdom Government through the Department of Health and Social Care (UK-DHSC).
It said women health leaders played a vital role in building the resilience of communities and health systems and provided critical leadership at all levels of the health sector to deliver a health system that responded to the needs of the population. The training was part of a four-months WHO Pathways to Leadership for Health Transformation Program, to enhance the capacity of health leaders to lead the transformation agenda of the health sector.
It said the training, initially designed for the WHO workforce, had since been extended to WHO member countries in response to the request by health ministers at the 70th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa. The all-female group of trainees was the third cohort of health leaders to receive the leadership training in Ghana and was in fulfilment of the Ministry of Health’s agenda of 60 per cent allocation of the training opportunity to women, it stated.
It explained that the Leadership for Health Transformation aimed to provide the required high-level leadership and strategic support to senior leaders in the health sector to enable them to transform health outcomes in their countries.
