Meguo, (UW/R), Feb 01, GNA – The residents of Meguo, a community in the Siru in the Nadowli-Kaleo District, have decried the lack of a maternity ward at their health facility, which inconveniences pregnant women during delivery.
According to them, there was a Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facility at the community, but was without a delivery room.
“It is one room, which they have partitioned with woods, so when a woman is in there to deliver, and men are also at the other side to receive other healthcare services, they sometimes peep through to see what is happening”, Madam Vingnakuba Yendau, a Community women Leader told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview.
She appealed to the government and benevolent individuals and organizations to support them by providing a delivery room or a complete maternity ward for them at the CHPS compound to help preserve the dignity of pregnant women.
Madam Yendau added that the facility was not connected to the national grid, making it difficult for them to access healthcare services and explained that they sometimes resorted to the use of flashlights.
Mr Albert Kuulanag, the Chairperson of the Committee in charge of the CHPS, told the GNA that they had built some rooms to serve as delivery rooms, but later converted into accommodation for some of the health personnel.
“It is not good for them to be conducting delivery and others will be watching. The nurse cannot also carry the drugs outside to serve others, but we had to give this room to the nurse to stay because we had no other option”, he indicated.
Mr Kuulanang added that the facility served many other communities in the area, including; people from neighbouring Burkina Faso, and urged the government to upgrade it to a clinic to render quality services to the people.
Mr Jude Ali, the Assembly Member for the area, said the facility was bedeviled with numerous challenges including; non-availability of drugs, which they sometimes refer patients who visited that facility to other health facilities in the area.
He, however, said he was yet to raise the issue of the maternity ward for the facility at the assembly session.
GNA