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 th...