By Simon Gali, GNA
Buli, (UW/R), March 03, GNA – The chief and people of Buli, a community in the Wa West District, have appealed to the government to address the myriad of challenges confronting the community to help improve their livelihoods.
They said challenges, such as poor health care access, dilapidated educational infrastructure, and bad roads in the area, had a grave toll on their lives and therefore required urgent attention.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the community, Mr Maxwell Dabaar, the Youth Leader of Buli, appealed to the Wa West District Health Directorate to consider upgrading the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facility at the community to a Health Centre.
He said it was because the facility served about 10 communities in the area and was therefore limited in its ability to meet the healthcare needs of the growing population that depended on it.
Other challenges at the facility he mentioned included inadequate health personnel and basic but essential equipment, such as beds and medicines.
Naa Guu Kyeteo, the Chief of the Buli community, added his voice to the calls for a befitting health infrastructure saying, “The CHPS compound is in a very bad state now; when it rains, it leaks, and patients cannot stay inside.”
Madam Nenfaajuu Vaida, the Midwife at the CHPS compound, indicated that the facility was grappling with inadequate beds, which compelled women to lie on the delivery bed after delivery.
“The delivery bed is too high for the women to lie on after delivery. We had additional beds, the women would have been moved there after they had delivered, so we can do palpation for other women”, she observed.
Other concerns the community raised included the dilapidated nature of the Buli Basic School, which was established about three decades (30 years) ago, impeding effective teaching and learning, especially during the rainy season.
“The school currently does not have a teachers’ quarters, the windows and doors are all broken, and the entire structure is damaged with cracks all over.
So, we need the attention of the government and other individuals and organisations to come to our aid by renovating it for us”, Mr Maxwell Dabaar, the youth Leader, observed.
The community, therefore, appealed to the stakeholders in the district, including the Member of Parliament for the Area, Sup. (rtd) Mr Peter Lanchene Toobu, the Wa West District Assembly and benevolent organisations to help address those challenges.
Meanwhile, Mr Saanpiire Daffuli, the Assembly Member for the Buli Electoral area, told the GNA that only one out of the eight communities under his electoral area had been connected to the national grid.
He therefore appealed to the government, through the Wa West District Assembly, to extend electricity to the remaining communities to improve the livelihoods of the people in those communities.
GNA
Edited by Caesar Abagali /George-Ramsey Benamba