Garden City University College in Kumasi, Ghana, is serious about educating and adding health workers to the country’s health workforce. Ghana has fewer than half the minimum number of doctors, nurses, and midwives recommended by the World Health Organization, and particularly needs more skilled birth attendants to improve maternal health. Only 54% of births are assisted by trained health workers.
That’s why Garden City and dozens of other schools throughout sub-Saharan Africa are turning to innovative approaches designed by the IntraHealth-led CapacityPlus project to help more health workers graduate.
The Bottlenecks and Best Buys approach, for instance, helps school leaders assess their current production capacity, identify bottlenecks that prevent them from scaling up the quality and quantity of graduates, and define the most cost-effective ways to overcome those constraints.
