{"id":233953,"date":"2026-05-21T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-free-primary-healthcare-policy-a-transformational-step-toward-health-equity-and-minimizing-progression-of-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:50:36","slug":"ghanas-free-primary-healthcare-policy-a-transformational-step-toward-health-equity-and-minimizing-progression-of-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-free-primary-healthcare-policy-a-transformational-step-toward-health-equity-and-minimizing-progression-of-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Free Primary Healthcare Policy &#8211; a Transformational Step Toward Health Equity and Minimizing Progression of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">Ghana has taken a bold, landmark step toward fair healthcare with the launch of the Free Primary Healthcare Program, a policy that could reshape the nation&#8217;s health sector for generations to come. Officially launched on April 15, 2026, by President John Dramani Mahama, this program is being positioned as a key element of Ghana&#8217;s road toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). At its core, the policy seeks to eliminate monetary barriers to basic healthcare and shift the national focus from treating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210361.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>Ghana has taken a bold, landmark step toward fair healthcare with the launch of the Free Primary Healthcare Program, a policy that could reshape the nation&#8217;s health sector for generations to come. Officially launched on April 15, 2026, by President John Dramani Mahama, this program is being positioned as a key element of Ghana&#8217;s road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233954,"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":[258,256,12057,12743,5996,6544,4509,8226,5731,12370,12324,36468,257,6470,7518,33108,254,5165,40636],"class_list":["post-233953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-developmental","tag-disabilities","tag-equity","tag-free","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-intellectual","tag-minimizing","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-primary","tag-progression","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-transformational"],"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\/233953","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=233953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}