{"id":6150,"date":"2026-03-30T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:18:37","slug":"ministry-of-health-advances-cardiovascular-care-with-new-guidelines-and-donated-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/ministry-of-health-advances-cardiovascular-care-with-new-guidelines-and-donated-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health Advances Cardiovascular Care with New Guidelines and Donated Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Ministry of Health has advanced cardiovascular care nationwide following a donation of over GH\u20b56 million worth of medical equipment from AYA and its partners under the AYA Integrated Healthcare Initiative.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Ministry has also launched revised national guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) management to standardize and improve health care across the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">At the launch, the Minister for Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, unveiled updated CVD protocols alongside new CHPS implementation booklets and training manuals to strengthen frontline capacity and service delivery.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">This combined effort, he stressed, will accelerate the government&#8217;s Free Primary Healthcare agenda by improving early detection and management of conditions such as hypertension and diabetes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The donated equipment, including ECG machines, defibrillators, glucometers, and blood pressure monitors, will support 179 health facilities across seven regions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking on behalf of the GIZ Country Director, Mr Wilhelm Hugo highlighted the importance of partnerships in tackling non-communicable diseases and reaffirmed GIZ\u2019s commitment to supporting Ghana\u2019s health system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">This intervention reinforces the Ministry\u2019s commitment to building a resilient, equitable, and high-quality healthcare system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has advanced cardiovascular care nationwide following a donation of over GH\u20b56 million worth of medical equipment from AYA and its partners under the AYA Integrated Healthcare Initiative. The Ministry has also launched revised national guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) management to standardize and improve health care across the country. At the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.gh\/mohclone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}