Abstract

This study investigated the implementation of the free maternal healthcare policy in Ghana with a focus on the constraints that impede the attainment of the policy’s goals. Using the qualitative approach, the case study strategy was deployed, with the New Juabeng Municipal as the case. Data was derived from multiple sources (interviews, focus group discussions and documentary reviews) and from different categories of persons (staff of health care facilities, service providers and district health insurance secretariat, beneficiaries and residents).

The study found the policy has been implemented according to plan in the New Juabeng Municipality. Several measures have been instituted by officials and these include; free registration and renewal of NHIS cards for pregnant women, free antenatal medical care, free delivery and post-delivery vaccination, regular visit of midwives of CHPS compounds to pregnant women and regular publicity and education campaigns to notify women to register and renew their NHIS cards. These have resulted in high antenatal care and reduced maternal mortality in the municipality.

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