GHANA – The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has partnered with Roche Products Ghana Limited, the local affiliate of the Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant F. Hoffmann-La Roche, to boost the delivery of quality healthcare services.
Roche is the world’s largest biotechnology company and a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives.
The company has a major focus on oncology, immunology, ophthalmology, infectious diseases and diseases of the central nervous system.
The agreement between the Ghana Medical Association and Roche Ghana aims to improve the quality of healthcare for non-communicable diseases in Ghana with an emphasis on cancer care.
It also creates the needed cancer awareness while equipping more health professionals with the requisite expertise to better manage people with cancer and other non-communicable diseases.
The collaborative project aims to significantly reduce the debilitating effects and unfortunate untimely deaths caused by non-communicable diseases along with reducing the cancer burden in the country.
The Country Manager of Roche Ghana Dr. Philip Anderson highlighted the importance of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and health professionals in the interest of serving patients better and improving healthcare as a whole.
He reassured the readiness of Roche to collaborate with the GMA while emphasizing the dire need for key actors in the health sector to pool resources together and work on areas of common interest to complement the government’s efforts.
The Ghana Medical Association is willing to work together with other corporate entities to intervene in often under-resourced aspects of health care like newborn care and emergency care.
Earlier, the Ghanaian government partnered Roche Ghana to launch a new cancer treatment center at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in an effort to expand access to oncology services for the Ghanaians.
Roche collaborated the Ministry of Health under the partnership to develop infrastructure to deliver cancer care at key hospitals across the country including opening oncology services in three new cancer treatment centres.
The initiative also helped to bridge geographic access barriers to quality cancer care, support capacity development and training for health care providers together with supporting awareness creation in communities.
Italian association donates medical equipment
Meanwhile, Ghana will benefit from a donation of medical equipment from Fondazione Francesca Rava, an Italian association that takes care of children in vulnerable situations worldwide.
The Italy Ambassador to Ghana Daniela d’Orlandi underlined the cordial longstanding cooperation that has existed between the two countries and cited several Italian companies active in Ghana’s health sector.
She disclosed that an Italian company Rizzani de Eccher and partners will kick off construction of the new maternity, gynecology and IVF block at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital by the end of March 2022.
She also commented on some health-related projects and initiatives carried out in Ghana with assistance from Italians such as Ghana Italian Women Association, a group that provides healthcare, medicines and send doctors and volunteers from Italy to different regions of Ghana.
Other projects include new neonatal care unit launched in Tamale and funded by Italian donors as well as assistance provided by the Italian Embassy to several critically-ill Ghanaian patients to receive treatment in Italian hospitals.
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