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Juapong – Aug. 25 – 24HourNews – The North Tongu District Health Directorate has held its 2026 Mid-Year Performance Review Meeting to assess progress, identify gaps and set priorities for the remainder of the year.
The two-day meeting, held from August 12 to 13, 2026, brought together health managers and frontline staff to evaluate key health indicators across the district.
The review was guided by the Directorate’s sustainability approach to Primary Health Care Performance Improvement (PHC-PI), which emphasizes leadership, data-driven decision-making, root-cause analysis, action planning, community participation, resource mobilization and continuous quality improvement.
Presentations showed that the five sub-districts, comprising 32 health facilities, implemented targeted interventions to address specific gaps. These included home visits to trace defaulters, community sensitization, radio health education, family planning and ANC outreaches, school vaccination exercises, community health committee engagements, supportive supervision and regular data reviews.
The Directorate said the use of digital tools such as KoboToolbox enhanced timely and accurate data collection, helping teams to track performance, identify challenges early and strengthen accountability at all levels.
By June 2026, the District had recorded improvements in several indicators, including 50.8 percent supervised deliveries, 90.5 percent coverage for four or more ANC visits, 55.6 percent first-trimester ANC registration, and progress in reducing anaemia among pregnant women at 36 weeks gestation.
However, the review also flagged areas needing urgent attention, including low family planning acceptor rates, Vitamin A coverage, second-year-of-life vaccination coverage, and concurrent administration of second-year-of-life antigens. The meeting also expressed concern over increases in stillbirths, neonatal mortality and institutional maternal mortality at the Catholic Hospital, Battor, with late referrals and delays in seeking care cited as contributing factors.
District Director of Health Services, Mr. Michael S. K. Zigah, called for the institutionalization of PHC-PI practices into routine service delivery, aligning the gains with the Government’s Free Primary Health Care initiative and the broader goal of Universal Health Coverage.
The meeting ended with sub-district teams reviewing their workplans, setting new targets and developing Desired Measurable Results (DMRs) for lagging indicators.
The Directorate reaffirmed its commitment to sustain progress and thanked its partners for their continued support toward improving the health and wellbeing of people in North Tongu.