Twenty per cent salary incentive for workers to be posted to deprived areas- President Mahama

President Mahama said from the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound to the health centre and the polyclinic, basic diagnosis, treatment, antenatal care, postnatal care, and the treatment of common illnesses such as malaria, typhoid, and diarrhoeal diseases were provided completely free of charge.

The President made the disclosure in his remarks on day one of his two-day Resetting Ghana Tour of the Upper West Region at Free Primary Health Care durbar at the Fiano Health Centre in the Daffiama-Bussie-Issa District.12, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the Government plans to introduce a 20 per cent incentive on the basic salaries of health and education workers who will accept postings to deprived and underserved areas across the country.