A Deputy Minister of Health-designate, Mahama Asei Seini, says government will focus on promoting preventive health service to reduce the disease burden in the country.
Among other things, he said, exercises and dieting, which were natural ways of wellbeing would be promoted through policies and programmes.
Mr Seini explained that the Ministry of Health would further undertake sensitisation to conscientise Ghanaians on the need for preventive health practices rather than rehabilitative.
Mr Seini who appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, in Accra, yesterday, noted that Ghanaians has for years been more concerned with curative health service, saying that “it was time to move away from medication all the time.”
Thomas Mbanba, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration- designate, during his turn, said the ministry would develop a policy to deal with emigration of young women to the Gulf countries.
He said the policy would ensure that women were not left in the hands of exploitative and abusive employers.
Among other requirements, Mr Mbanba said women who wish to travel to the Gulf region as well as their local recruitment agencies, would be registered and monitored.
He said the database would assist the ministry in tracking the whereabouts of the women and the form of employment they were engaged in.
Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture-designate, Mohammed Hardi Tuferu, said that, lack of quality data was an impediment to the development of the agricultural sector.
In this regard, he stated that, the ministry would undertake capacity building which was aimed at enhancing the skills of farmers to keep quality data and ensure jobs creation.
Mr Tuferu said the ministry was registering farmers in the Northern Region to help deepen interventions, including fertiliser and seedling distribution aimed at alleviating their challenges.
He noted that the ministry would pay more attention to the development of irrigation schemes to support farmers in the production of essential food products.
BY CLAUDE NYARKO ADAMS
