In order to reduce the child mortality rate, which is currently15 times higherher than in Germany, new ways must be thought of. Many women and children die during childbirth, children succumb to infectious diseases (curable with appropriate medical care) and malaria unnecessarily claims many victims among the youngest.
On the other hand, there are also patients in Ghana who can afford treatment because they enjoy health insurance. And there are people who can afford private treatment but go abroad because satisfactory medical care is not guaranteed locally.
The new hospital will offer these patients the opportunity to receive top medical treatment in their home country. The income from all insured and solvent patients will finance hospital operations and guarantees reserves for the renewal of the medical equipment (initially donated from Germany).
The goals are:
* a very high level of medical care provided by qualified staff
* establishing a functioning and self-sufficient hospital as a contact hub
* all surpluses will serve to cross-finance free treatmentfor those up to five years of age
To achieve the following:
No child younger than five years old should be turned away from this hospital because there is no money for medical treatment.
The hospital will use every Cedi to provide humanitarian aid to the country’s poorest people.
Three villages near the hospital have already been visited where people live without electricity, running water and medical assistance. Attention will be paid to all children under five years of age, and later the radius will gradually be extended because the entire northern region comprises countless places of poeple in need.
The “solidarity medicine” model
In order to reduce the child mortality rate, which is currently 15 times higher her than in Germany, new ways must be thought of. Many women and children die during childbirth, children succumb to infectious diseases (curable with appropriate medical care) and malaria unnecessarily claims many victims among the youngest.
On the other hand, there are also patients in Ghana who can afford treatment because they enjoy health insurance. And there are people who can afford private treatment but go abroad because satisfactory medical care is not guaranteed locally.
The new hospital will offer these patients the opportunity to receive top medical treatment in their home country. The income from all insured and solvent patients will finance hospital operations and guarantees reserves for the renewal of the medical equipment (initially donated from Germany).
The goals are:
* a very high level of medical care provided by qualified staff
* establishing a functioning and self-sufficient hospital as a contact hub
* all surpluses will serve to cross-finance free treatment for those up to five years of age
To achieve the following:
No child younger than five years old should be turned away from this hospital because there is no money for medical treatment.
The hospital will use every Cedi to provide humanitarian aid to the country’s poorest people.
Three villages near the hospital have already been visited where people live without electricity, running water and medical assistance. Attention will be paid to all children under five years of age, and later the radius will gradually be extended because the entire northern region comprises countless places of poeple in need.