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HeFRA moves to a new location

The new premises The Health Facilities Regulatory Agency(HeFRA) established under Act 829 of 2011 has now moved to its new premises at 31 Fourth Circular Road, Cantonments Accra (between the Togo and American Embassies) as from Monday 3rd April, 2017. Object of the Agency The principal object of the Agency is to license and monitor facilities for the provision of public and private health care services through such functions as (a) receiving, considering and approving applications for licenses, (b) inspecting and…

Operating a new facility in Ghana; what you need to know in brief.

In accordance with the FIRST SCHEDULE SECTION 11(2) of Act 829 (2011) the following facilities SHALL be licensed by HeFRA in order to operate as new facility or continue to operate as an existing facility: Medical and Dental (clinics and hospitals) Eye care clinics Convalescent and nursing homes Geriatric homes Maternity homes Occupational thereapy clinics Physiotherapy clinics Dental technology laboratories Clinical and biomedical laboratories Medical assistant clinics Diagnostic – imaging technology clinics Pharmacies and chemical shops Esteopathy clinics Prostherics and…

Registration of health facilities under the Health Institutions and Facilities Act 2011, Act 829

The Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) was established by Act 829 to regulate Health Facilities for the provision of public and private health care services in Ghana. The principal object of the Agency is to license and monitor health facilities for the provision of public and private health care services through such approving applications for licenses, (b) inspecting and licensing facilities intended for the provision of public and private healthcare services, (c) determining the basic and minimum equipment and personnel…

Health Facilities Regulatory Agency cries for resources

The Board Chairman of the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA), Nana Otuo Acheampong, has urged the government to empower the agency with logistics and resources to strengthen it to deliver on its mandate of improving health care in the country. He informed the Daily Graphic of several challenges confronting the agency which has the sole mandate of regulating the about 30,000 health facilities in the country. In an interview yesterday in Accra soon after the board of the agency was…