{"id":230512,"date":"2026-04-16T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-free-primary-health-care-policy-to-strengthen-universal-coverage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:16:31","slug":"ghana-free-primary-health-care-policy-to-strengthen-universal-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-free-primary-health-care-policy-to-strengthen-universal-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Free Primary Health Care Policy to Strengthen Universal Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">The launch of the Free Primary Health Care (FPHC) policy at Dodowa marks another significant attempt by government to bridge the longstanding gaps in Ghana&#8217;s health delivery system. Coming at a time when the quest for universal health coverage remains a national priority, the policy deserves both commendation and careful scrutiny as it moves from announcement to implementation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s call for citizens to take full advantage of the policy is well placed. For many years,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604160387.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 launch of the Free Primary Health Care (FPHC) policy at Dodowa marks another significant attempt by government to bridge the longstanding gaps in Ghana&#8217;s health delivery system. Coming at a time when the quest for universal health coverage remains a national priority, the policy deserves both commendation and careful scrutiny as it moves from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230513,"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":[258,256,5732,6904,6544,4508,4509,5731,257,6470,7518,254,6433,12369],"class_list":["post-230512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-care","tag-coverage","tag-free","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-primary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-universal"],"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\/230512","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=230512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}