Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, has described Ghana’s health sector performance for the year 2020 as mixed, saying although tremendous progress was made in some indicators, “a number of our milestones suffered.”
The Health Minister, who was addressing the National Health Sector Annual Summit for 2021, which opened in Accra, said there was a clear indication that the sector, had recorded significant performance in some areas, for which it must be congratulated.
Unfortunately, the sector failed to achieve, for instance, the target of 62 per cent skilled delivery in 2020 and instead, recorded 55.4 per cent, while institutional neonatal mortality also worsened from 7.3 per 1,000 live births to 7.5 per 1000 live births within the period, he said.