Gbi Wegbe (V/R), July 13, GNA – The Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) has commissioned and handed over a refurbished health centre for the Gbi Wegbe community to enhance quality healthcare delivery.
The facility has a labour ward, antenatal clinic, dispensary, detention room, laboratory, Outpatient Department and a consulting room.
Professor Chang-yup Kim, the President of KOFIH, said the commissioned facility was one of the activities for the Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH) project funded by the Foundation since 2019.
He said the foundation accepted a request to support the refurbishment of the facility which was in a deplorable state with the aim of creating access to health service delivery in the community and adjoining ones.
Prof Kim said the main aim of the project was to improve MNCH services and to reduce maternal mortality, adding that, “I strongly believe that it will be achieved with the completion of this facility.”
He reaffirmed KOFIH’s continuous cooperation with the Ghana Health Service to support the agency and expressed gratitude to government and stakeholders who had been working tirelessly on the project.
Ms Gift Asempa, Acting Hohoe Municipal Director of Health Services, commended the Foundation for the numerous support health facilities in the Municipality had received from KOFIH including mechanized boreholes, USG Scan machines and printers, and refurbished laboratories.
She said the refurbished facility was in a deplorable state, to the extent that it was no longer possible to work from it, forcing all staff to relocate to the Midwife’s quarters from where all services were rendered.
Ms Asempa noted that notwithstanding their surging confidence, health service delivery at the subdistrict level was not without challenges such as unavailability of some basic equipment at their hubs including oxygen concentrator and BEmONC equipment.
She said the availability of the equipment would ensure effective management of cases at their level and provide pre-referral treatment while training skills on the equipment would be impacted to Physician Assistants and midwives at the hubs.
Ms Asempa expressed gratitude to KOFIH for their physical, human resources and equipment development projects and added that the Health Directorate had benefitted from individual experiences and selfless services from the Regional Directorate as well as the cooperation enjoyed from traditional leaders in the Municipality.
Togbe Deh IX, Chief of Gbi Kledzo, commended the Foundation for its unflinching support and appealed to the Health Directorate to convert the facility into a Municipal Hospital since they would offer the needed help to achieve it and appealed for the facelift of the major road linking to the facility.
Togbe Katabua IV, a Gbi Wegbe Sub-chief, urged the community members to help managers in taking good care of the facility and do not deface the wall when they attend for healthcare.
He also urged them not to see the facility as a solution to their health needs and become reluctant in maintaining good hygiene and keeping their environment safe devoid of indiscriminate defecation and disposal of refuse.
A historical background of the facility revealed that it was built and commissioned in 1994 with sponsorship from the Rotary Club of Brookfield and Gbi Wegbe/Godenu Youth Development Association in honour of one Dr Isaac Agyagbo, a native of the community who died at age 33 of kidney failure.
GNA