Enhancing Quality Health Care through Balanced Theological Perspectives

Women Dying at the point of childbirth has remained a challenge in Ghana. Despite Governments and other Agencies efforts towards Zero Maternal Death some Christian and other Religious Leaders use Faith Understandings to pressure pregnant women from seeking health care in the Hospitals in the name of prayers and miracles. The assumption is that the Christian God heals only in Church and through Pastors. There is the need for church leaders to come to the understanding that God heals in our Hospitals too. This awareness and advocacy can be better pursued by Church Leaders and respected Theologians an advantage that the Alliance for Christian Advocacy Africa with its members and networks across Ghana is very well positioned to embark on. Theological perspectives will be used to engage National and Regional Faith Based Leaders to properly situate the Demographic Dividend and the Sustainable Development Goals within Christian Understandings and Church life. Ghanaian women dying at Child birth due to denying of Health Care by Faith Based Leaders is simply Un-Christian and Un-Godly. Even though the awareness creation engagements, advocacy in Churches and Media campaigns will target Christian leaders it will also adopt the Ecumenical platforms available in Ghana to engage Muslim and Traditional Leaders.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  Engaging one hundred National and Eight Hundred Regional Christian Leaders with Theological perspectives to be actively involved in the public sensitization against Mothers Dying at the point of Child Delivery in Ghana in seventeen Training Workshop