Improving Health Training Institutions Status to Function As Tertiary: Challenges and the Way Forward in Ghana
Albert Opoku *
Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Tepa, Ghana and Trinity Hospital Pankrono, Kumasi, Ghana.
Isaac O. Acheampong
Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Tepa, Ghana.
Asafo Adjei, T. A.
Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Tepa, Ghana.
Euince Asuaa Asante
Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Tepa, Ghana.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The objective of this opinion article is to explain how to improve Health Training Institutions Status to Function as Tertiary. Health Training Institution (HTI) is a unit under Ministry of Health of Ghana which has as its principal object the conducting of courses of training in the theory and practice of health care delivery, including nursing, midwifery and allied health subjects. These and many other measures like being abreast with accreditation procedures, improving facilities such as library, ICT and skill laboratories, general infrastructure and proper and efficient governance system coupled with good leadership style to reflect on the contemporary tertiary education system.
Keywords: Health training institutions, tertiary, Ghana