Hence, individuals and families, sometimes, struggled to pay their children’s school fees and other expenses. Lack of insurance cover/Government subsidy The health insurance scheme in Ghana does not cover the cost of dialysis for individuals with ESKD. Some participants reported using all their ...
“You don’t have money for your child’s school fees, yet you are looking for money to celebrate birthday for him. In this country we don’t have enough ARVs for those who are sick already, PMTCT is a problem, and you want to give medication to those who are not sick” (National...
Many Ghanaians were surprised to learn that Atsu’s benevolence extended beyond Ghana. Popular Nigerian skit maker Dr. Craze said Atsu paid his school fees in full after his father’s death. Christian has been supporting me from way back 2015. When I lost my dad, he l reached out and of...
That is why an education system that terminated at JHS simply because the parents could not afford to pay the SHS fees, was not just backward: it was criminal. Every year, we literally thrust out there, thousands of brilliant young children simply because their parents could not afford to pa...
the roles played by SMFEs in poverty reduction are significantly unimpactful hence the need to intensify capitalizing on all opportunities to address challenges they present.” The government institutions in charge of these forest resources depend on these permits and license fees to supplement their ...
Hence, health care providers end up charging clients’ fees for some services although per policy it is supposed to be free. So, basically, although CHPS is public health focused, there is limited efforts in pushing forward the public health agenda within the CHPS framework, to ensure that ...
The few other developed scales also did not have questions on detainment due to non-payment of service fees [18, 20, 21]. The validity and reliability of these questions only confirm what some studies from Ghana have revealed about the regular detainment of some postpartum women after delivery...
Consequently, correlation here must not mean causation. Nevertheless, our findings support previous research in Ghana [11],[29] and elsewhere [42],[43] that found similar incremental changes in access to, and use of maternal health services following the abolition of user-fees for maternal ...
Zelee Hill has received consulting fees from the Gates Foundation. The remaining authors have no financial interests to declare. Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions About this article Cite this article Hill, Z., Manu, A., Tawiah-Agyemang, C. et al. How did formative research ...
[84] also stated that it is important that project managers assume broad consultation of the tariffs of PPP projects in Ghana with the users, so charges and fees do not become a surprise amount to be dealt with for the users. Quick and adequate information sharing leads to understanding, ...