Stroke survivors in the Volta Region are calling for urgent reforms to improve their treatment, urging government to fully include stroke care under the National Health Insurance Scheme.
According to the Stroke Survivors Network, several stroke-related conditions, including cognitive and emotional challenges, often go unnoticed, while survivors remain excluded from key policy discussions and lack access to essential healthcare services.
Executive Director for the Stroke Survivors Network, Ebenezer Adams, in an interview on Tuesday March 31 advocated expanded support systems, including access to assistive devices such as wheelchairs and increased enrolment in social protection programmes like LEAP.
“Stroke survivors face a myriad of challenges. Assessing care, they are unclear as to which of the areas does the National Health Insurance covers. Some of them pay for their rehabilitation. Persons living with stroke have a need for assistive technology.
“Most of them don’t have access to wheelchairs. So what we are calling for is that the government should expedite action in the development of the assistive technology policy, which is currently stored at the Ministry of Health. We are also calling for the government to subsidise and support persons living with stroke through the LEAP programme because most of them are not working now.”
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