page_title: Healthcare in Ghana
section_title: Healthcare in the 21st century
hierarchical_section_title: Healthcare in Ghana / Healthcare in the 21st century
caption_attribution_description: CC BY Regents of the University of Michigan
context_page_description: In the Precolonial period traditional village priests, clerics, and herbalists were the primary care givers, offering advice and treatment to the sick. Premodern traditional beliefs stressed the combination of spiritual and physical healing with priests and clerics identifying the supernatural causes of disease and its remedies and herbalists offering medicinal herbs. The intersection of spirituality and medicine can be seen in priests using practices such as divination to determine the cause of illness and suggesting curative sacrifices before prescribing medicinal herbs obtained from herbalists.
context_section_description: In Ghana, most health care is provided by the government and is largely administered by the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Services. The healthcare system has five levels of providers: health posts, health centers and clinics, district hospitals, regional hospitals and tertiary hospitals. Health posts are the first level of primary care for rural areas.
  These programs are funded by the government of Ghana, financial credits, Internally Generated Fund (IGF), and Donors-pooled Health Fund. Hospitals and clinics run by Christian Health Association of Ghana also provide healthcare services. There are 200 hospitals in Ghana. Some for-profit clinics exist, but they provide less than 2% of health care services.
caption: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
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