Challenges to the delivery of clinical diabetes services in Ghana created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The barriers to delivering clinical non-communicable disease services in low- and middle-income countries have risen with the onset of COVID-19. Using Ghana as a case study, this article examines the changes COVID-19 has brought to diabetes service delivery and considers policy responses to deal with future such outbreaks.

Methods

We conducted 18 interviews between November 2020 and February 2021 with health professionals and administrators from primary, secondary and tertiary facilities within the Ghana Health Service. The analysis was performed using deductive and inductive methods.

Results

There were six general themes in interviewees' responses: (1) COVID-19 had exacerbated the problems of high medicine and service costs and medicine shortages, (2) the p

SUBMITTER: Tagoe ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9253720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature