Access to free maternal care must be fundamental to women - Otiko
The National Women's Organizer of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afisa Djaba, says Ghana’s growth from
a lower-income to a middle-income status can be only be achieved if
women are empowered to go to into farming and trading, which are the two
major areas that drive the growth of every nation.
According to her, most Ghanaian women
who are supposed to work and move the nation forward are dying in labour
due to lack of access to free maternal healthcare delivery and
malfunctioning of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which
should be the fundamental right to every woman in the country.
"All
those women who are supposed to have maternal healthcare delivery are
not having and they are dying including their babies are all princesses
and princes of mother Ghana and we must ensure that we bring back the
'free maternal healthcare’ and the NHIS in full force.
“It is not about numbers, it is access
to quality healthcare delivery so that the woman and her children and
family will have good healthcare delivery to be productive to mother
Ghana and increase growth.”
Madam Otiko Djaba made the remark in an
interview with journalists on the sideline of an event to commemorate
the International Women’s Day celebration organized by the NPP women’s
wing on Tuesday in Accra.
In attendance were scores of women
groups made up of the civil society organizations, politicians, human
rights activists, nurses, the disabled, widows and kayayes amongst
others.
Mad. Otiko Djaba bemoans Ghana’s growth
has reduced drastically to 3.5 per cent including the falling of
agriculture which is the said to be the engine of growth for the economy
of any nation.
She lamented the malfunctioning of the NHIS system, calling for a complete restoration of the scheme.
She urges all women in Ghana to rise up and speak for themselves in order to bring about the change they deserve.
For his part, Elizabeth Sackey, Member
of Parliament for Okaikwei North Constituency, advised the women to use
the day to reflect on the struggles of womanhood and emulate the
gestures of powerful women in the society who have distinguished
themselves through hardwork and perseverance.
Meanwhile, Madam Otiko Djaba and Mrs.
Stella Agyapong, C.E.O of Oman Fm and Net2 Television, used the occasion
to donate some relief items to the disabled, widows and Kayayes who
trooped to the venue to observe the International Women’s Day
Celebration.
The items included 2 bags of mosquito
net, 12 bags of ladies clothes, 2 bags of men’s clothes, 10 boxes of
toilet soap, 10 boxes of hand sanitizer, one box of mackerel, six
bottles of frytol cooking oil, 32 cans of tin tomatoes and 8 bags of
rice.
According to Otiko Djaba, the items are
intended to put a smile on faces of the vulnerable women in the society
especially during the International Women’s Day Celebration.
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