The Municipal Health Director for Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region, Dr. Rebecca Dede Bantey is appealing to the general public, philanthropist, NGO’s especially the gov’t of Ghana to come to their aid by helping them to get an ultra modern health facilities to run their services.
She said, initially the human resources was their main challenges confronting the Assembly been woefully inadequate. But from August of last year 2020 till the beginning of this year 2021, there has been recruitment of newly qualified staff who has been in the house because there had been no financial clearance for them to be posted, stating that for now the human resources is gradually getting better.
Dr. Dede Bantey adds, 10 out of the 18 chip compounds in the municipality has structures, even thou it’s too small and as a result they lack spacious to run their services.
“Is left with the 8 yet to find structures for them. We need infrastructure in all this areas to be able to intervene in terms of any emergency before a referral to their main Tafo Gov’t Hospital for the treatment” she said.
She told the media during the presentation of some Hospital Equipments to her health directorate by their MP, Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo.
Some of the presented equipments were; wheel chair, BP machine (manual and digital), thermometer ( digital and analogue), drip stand, foetal doppler, weighing scales, chairs, ceiling fans, air conditioners and many more.
Dr. Rebecca Dede Bantey showed her profound gratitude to the Hon. MP for the equipments received.
Furthermore, Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo, MP for the constituency who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Education designate stated, the property of every country is its citizens and they supposed to have a good strength and health.
“Because if your citizens are healthy they work hard and contribute to the country’s development” she opined.
She commended her able hard working health director stating that when she toured the municipality and came across problems facing the area, she seeked to the MP’s attention and deliberated on the issues togetherly before finding solutions to them immediately.
Hon. MP adds, last year 2020 she kept her health insurance fund and decided to use the money to buy hospital equipments for the chip compounds in her constituency to boost quality health care delivery.
The Municipal Coordinating Director for Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly, Mrs. Ruth Woode who represented the MCE Hon Owusu Twum Ampofo to officially handover the equipments to the health directorate expressed her excitement over the equipments received from the Hon. MP.
She entreated the health directorate to exhibit the culture of maintenance of the equipments so that its last for long.
In addition,Mrs. Woode thanked Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo for her kind gesture to the Municipality.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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