The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and three other partners have developed a community health engagement model that encourages individuals, especially those living with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, to take control of their own health. Professor Alfred Edwin Yawson, Provost of the College of Health Sciences, was present at this forum to address the participants, he called for the adoption of the model into the country's health system.

He asserted that the model was developed through the CREATE programme, which stands for Global Health Research Group on Collaborative Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases in Africa. The CREATE programme was a £2.3 million National Institute of Health Research funded by the Global Health Research Programme and delivered through a partnership between Korle bu Teaching Hospital, University of Leicester, University of Kenya, University of Mozambique. Professor Yawson said countries such as Mozambique and Kenya had adopted the chronic care model and were in different stages of using it to improve the health of their citizens.

Prof. Yawson asserted that the model sought to achieve was to prevent as many people as possible from developing non-communicable diseases, but when they got it, the National Health Insurance Scheme had been strengthened to take care of a basic creative component of these conditions. (2:15) Again, he said, instead of putting all high-risk burden into the National Health Insurance Scheme, another model such as the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, otherwise known as the Mahama Cares, to take care of those whose conditions have developed complications.