School and educationIn 1957 Ghana had only one university and a handful of secondary and primary schools. Today Ghana has about 18.530 primary schools and 900 senior secondary schools, and there is a lot more children in the schools. Most Ghanaians have relatively easy access to primary and secondary education, and that’s a huge change. In 2011 there were 0,6 million children that wasn’t going to school and previously there were 1,2 million children that wasn’t going to school. About half of the poor children drops out of primary school, and only 10% of the rich children drops out.
Ghanaian university admission is very competitive, especially if you want to work with medicine, engineering or law. |
Food cultureTraditional Ghanaian food is often very spicy with ingredients like corn, beans and rice. Fufu and red-red are two of the most popular dishes in Ghana. Fufu is a dough with plantains, and cassava and red-red is made of beans, shrimps, palm oil and tomatoes. They also eats a lot of chicken, fish, vegetables and fruit like ananas, orange, coconuts, mango and grapes.
Especially in the poor places in Ghana they eat a lot of porridge and root crops. Fresh vegetables and fruit is sparse in the poor places, and meat and fish are luxury, so if you are a fisherman, it can be necessary to sell your fish to earn money. |
Health careIn Ghana, healthcare is not the greatest. There is a lot of diseases and you can’t always get proper treatment. Healthcare is government and administered by Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service. The Health Service is divided in five providers. Health posts in primary rural areas, health centers and clinics, district hospitals, region hospitals and tertiary hospitals. There is 200 hospitals in Ghana. In Ghana, there is something called universal health care system, but before this was established many people died because they didn't have the money to pay their healthcare. According to the World Health Organization, the most common diseases is malaria, hiv/aids, measles, chicken pox, yellow fever and pertussis. The healthcare systems in Ghana are trying their best to make a good healthcare system.
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