Millennium Promise Alliance partnering with Simprints and Ghana Health Service to deploy biometrics in pilot project in the Eastern region of Ghana
The pilot project is active in more than 10 health facilities in two districts selected by the Ghana Health Service in the country’s Eastern Region.
Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA) is supporting Simprints in the Eastern Region of Ghana with Monitoring and Evaluation on Gavi’s user surveys, provision of technical support, and community mobilization for using biometric devices to deliver maternal and child healthcare services.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced plans in 2021 to use Simprints’ biometric solution within the framework of a healthcare and vaccine delivery program. The GHS Director General, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has hailed advantages of the technology. “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, reliable data on the number of individuals immunized which leads to more precise coverage rates and faster intervention, avoidance of duplicate records through biometric verification, which can prevent unnecessary double dosing (wasting precious supply), and creating important time and cost savings,” he said during the launch of the project.
According to Cisco, which has supported Simprints in its development of contactless biometrics since 2018, the contactless approach has multiple advantages: it is more hygienic, more accurate, quicker to deploy, requires no specialist equipment and is more culturally acceptable in some regions.
Millennium Promise Alliance Ghana will help Ghana Health Service integrate the tech solution with existing systems to enable it to better meet the health needs of all Ghanaians. Starting in the Eastern region, the project is also the first national vaccination program to use contactless biometrics.


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