Dr. Saviour K. Yevutsey

Mr. Saviour Yevutsey is a Senior Specialist at the Ministry of Health. A Fellow of the Ghana College of Pharmacists. A Pharmacist with a Master in Public Health (MPH) in the area of Health Policy Planning and Management at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon. He had his first degree in Pharmacy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Mr. Yevutsey is the National Coordinator of the Ghana AMR Secretariat at the Ministry of Health which is the coordinating Ministry for the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) of the AMR policy. He was deeply involved in the development of the AMR policy and its NAP under the one-health approach. As a team leader, Mr. Yevutsey conducts monitoring and technical support visits on pharmaceutical activities in all Regional Medical Stores and regional and District hospitals in Ghana. In order to improve on the rational use of medicines, Mr. Yevutsey serves as the national coordinator of the Rational use of Medicines and institutionalization of the Drugs and Therapeutic Committee in the various healthcare facilities. He coordinated the initial phase of the use of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as a priority-setting tool and its institutionalization in Ghana. The pilot implementation of Antimicrobial use monitoring in human health facilities was also led by Mr. Yevutsey. Mr. Yevutsey authored the “Situational analysis of antibiotic use and resistance in Ghana: policy and regulation” which contributed to the policy agenda setting on AMR in Ghana. He also published his work on the “Financial Viability of District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes of Lawra and Sissala East Districts, in the Upper West region of Ghana.