President John Dramani Mahama has announced that his administration will revive the Ministry of Health’s National Medical Outreach Services dubbed “ONUADOR.”
The initiative was first launched by the president in his first term, but he lost the 2016 general elections; the project was abandoned by the Nana Addo-led administration.
When the first phase was launched in 2015, it was expected that it would cover communities in forty-three districts under phase one.
They include six districts each in the Western and Volta Regions, three each in the Eastern, Greater Accra, Brong Ahafo, and Ashanti regions, five in the Northern region, and four each in the Upper West and Upper East regions.
Commenting on it in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday, February 27, 2025, President Mahama disclosed that the initiative would be revived.
According to him, the government will work in collaboration with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in reviving the ONUADOR, which means “love your neighbour.”
‘’Working with the NHIA, we will revive the ONUADOR mobile healthcare vans to provide OPD, ophthalmology dental, ENT, and cancer screening care in remote and vulnerable communities. An earlier attempt to provide mobile healthcare facilities was abandoned after the change of government in 2017.’’
If implemented, the Mobile Clinic service will have the objective to cater to general medical care, dentistry, ophthalmology, and audiology.
The medical team is expected, among others, to provide interactive health education in communities in order to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
