By James Esuon
Agona Ahamadonko (C/R), April 30, GNA-The quality of health care delivery system at Agona Ahamadonko Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound is being threatened by severe water crisis at the facility.
The situation is so critical that the midwife and nurses at the facility had to abandon their clinical services and travel a long distance by tricycles, popularly called Aboboyaa, to fetch water from a stream, before services could be rendered to the patients.
Madam Akosua Megavor , the midwife in charge of the facility told the GNA at Ahamadonko in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region, that, the stream water being given to patients when the situation was critical, was not safe.
The midwife said the issue had persisted for more than five years since the facility was inaugurated but no help had come to them.
The midwife further said many appeals were made to the government, the Ministry of Health, Agona West Assembly and Agona West Municipal Health Directorate to no avail.
The water crisis had been a major obstacle to them, she noted, adding that sometimes, the staff had to buy sachet water from Agona Swedru and Agona Nyakrom for personal use, a huge challenge confronting heath staff at the facility.
The midwife, therefore, appealed to the Minister of Health, on-government organisations, the Ghana Water Company Limited, corporate bodies, financial Institutions in and around Agona West to go to the aid of facility.
She said connecting potable water to the CHPS compound would go a long way to assist the health personnel to render quality health care to the 5,000 residents in and around Ahamadonko town.
In a related development, Nana Kwesi Twaaku I, Chief of Ahamadonko, added his voice to the appeal to the new Member of Parliament for Agona West, Mrs Ernestina Ofori Dangbey, to use her good office to solicit assistance for the town and health facility to get potable water.
The Chief said lack of portable water in the town had seriously affected the early attendance of school children to school and had impacted negatively on their academic performance.
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