Simprints and GHS: biometrics for health care delivery in Ghana
Simprints biometric technology is integrated with the DHIS2 Tracker in Ghana for maternal and child health services.
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In November 2021, the Simprints team, the Ghana Health Service and Millennium Promise Alliance launched the biometric immunisation project to verify the delivery of routine immunisations within maternal and child health care through the eTracker in Ghana.
As part of the rollout, the GHS has identified and selected an initial 10 health facilities in 2 districts of the Eastern Region for the first phase, over the next 9 months. An additional 10 facilities will be included within the phase to demonstrate the various modalities of the biometric technology.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who graced the occasion, said:
I believe that this initiative in the long term will ensure unique patient records created without risk of disease transmission among health workers and patients, provide reliable data on the number of individuals immunised which leads to more precise coverage rates and faster intervention and avoid duplicate records through biometric verification which prevents double dosing and creating important time and cost savings.