Legislature for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei has praised the health directorate in her constituency for recording zero maternal death under the 2020 year of review, and expressed her excitement over their performance.
“We pray this will continue in the rest of the years ahead of us, because if a mother lost her life during child birth in fact is very painful”.
Hon. MP added, the number of people who resides in her constituency keeps increasing thus, will have a dialogue with the ministry of health to give them more health personnels to provide quality health care to its citizenry in the Municipality.
Again Hon. Nana Ama Asiamah-Adjei revealed that, plans are being put in place to get another hospital to complement to the services of Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital, the biggest and main hospital at Mampong-Akuapem to save more lives since Akuapem North has become a developing Municipality.
The Lawmaker said these to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during her first edition of Stakeholders Consultative Meeting at Amanokrom, dubbed; Akuapem North Constituency 2021; Consolidating our gains: Together Towards Tomorrow”.
The MCE for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Berima Asiedu-Larbi also lamented about the poor performance of the students in the municipality.
He said, gone are the days Akuapemman had lots of professors but it has become difficult for students offlate to get aggregate 6 in BECE or better results in WASSCE. A situation he described as very pathetic, stating that education is paramount to the good people of Akuapemman.
“If you come to Akuapem we don’t have lands for cocoa or oil palm plantation nor for farming but what we have here is our brains and it goes with education. So we the [parents] have a lot of work to do” stressed Hon. MCE.
This, he underscores how parents ensures their animals are caged before it’s 6pm, but fails to look for the whereabouts of their wards and bring them home whenever it’s late night, and described the manner as worrisome.
This he stated, parents think about their animals more than their kids education, adding that they[Stakeholders] will put measures in place to make sure parents in Akuapem focus much more on their children’s education more than any other things, because that’s the area where education first started.
Last but not the least, the Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Seth Acheampong who graced the programme also spoke with Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH and commended Hon. Nana Ama Dokua and her MCE Hon. Asiedu-Larbi for coming up with such programme.
He stressed, this programme will paved way for all the gov’t sectors in the constituency to come out and portrayed what they have done for the constituents to know the happenings going on in their constituency.
“Again its gives an opportunity to the constituents to asked questions about the things they don’t understand in the constituency and find solution to it and this is what we called it democracy “he said.
By// Krontihene Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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