John Chigbu
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cassona International, John Chigbu, has attributed most of the challenges facing the health sector particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa to the lack of access to finance and medical equipment.
Addressing participants at a health forum in Accra yesterday, he said most of the issues the health sector is bedeviled with could be addressed if there was adequate access to finance at the disposal of health facilities.
He said, “Most countries in the Sub-Saharan region are always facing challenges in the treatment of diseases not because there are no doctors but it’s as a result of lack of medical equipment and access to finance to purchase some of these equipment which are highly expensive.
“We do not want to sell equipment to Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africans only but we want to finance it because we know that the biggest issue we have in sub-Saharan Africa is access to credit and capital,” he added.
According to him, due to the enormity of the issue, Cassona has embarked on several sensitization drives, over the years.
“We do not want to sell equipment to Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africans only but we want to finance it because we know that the biggest issue we have in sub-Saharan Africa is access to credit and capital and we observed this during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.
By Ebenezer K. Amponsah