Vodafone Ghana Communications has set up a new health line, enabling Vodafone customers in the country to call and enquire about their health conditions
Twenty doctors and nurses have been gathered together to respond to Vodafone Ghana customers' health related issues on the new line, which customers can connect to by dialling 255.
The health line will be open between 4pm and 10pm.
The doctor to patient ratio in Ghana stands at 1:12,000, considerably lower than the global standard of 1:5,000, according to the World Health Organisation.
Vodafone Ghana is tackling the country's healthcare issues, which include long queues at medical centres and patients self-medicating, through its social co-operate responsibility programme.
Vodafone Ghana has paid for hospital bills on Valentines Day for individuals who could not afford it, and treated diseases using its team of doctors free of charge on the Vodafone Health Line TV show, but the company felt it could still do more.
Carman Bruce Annan, Vodafone Ghana Communications' brand and cooperate communications manager, told a press conference in Accra that the response shown by customers positioned the company to do more to improve its healthcare assistance.
"For most people access to doctor is very difficult considering transportation, distance and cost," Bruce Annan was quoted as saying by the Ghanaian Chronicle.
