{"id":229945,"date":"2026-04-09T14:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-western-region-steps-up-drive-for-quality-primary-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:45:31","slug":"ghana-western-region-steps-up-drive-for-quality-primary-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-western-region-steps-up-drive-for-quality-primary-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Western Region Steps Up Drive for Quality Primary Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is intensifying efforts to provide quality and accessible primary healthcare to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">&#8220;Our mandate extends beyond ending preventable diseases; we aim to move from survival to thriving and transforming lives,&#8221; said Dr. Marion Okoh-Owusu, Western Regional Director of Health Services, at the opening of the region&#8217;s 2025 Annual Performance Review Meeting in Takoradi. The meeting focused on the theme: <em>&#8216;Achieving High-Quality Primary&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is intensifying efforts to provide quality and accessible primary healthcare to residents. &#8220;Our mandate extends beyond ending preventable diseases; we aim to move from survival to thriving and transforming lives,&#8221; said Dr. Marion Okoh-Owusu, Western Regional Director of Health Services, at the opening of the region&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,13716,4508,4509,12370,257,7518,7461,6324,254,9150,12623],"class_list":["post-229945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drive","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-primary","tag-quality","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps","tag-western"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}