By P.K.Yankey
Ankobra (W/R), April 24, GNA- Madam Angela List, Chief Executive Officer of ADAMUS Resources Limited, a subsidiary of Nguvu Mining Company, has initiated the establishment of a GHS 1million Community Health Primary Services ( CHPS) Compound for residents of Ankobra ,a fishing and farming community in the Ellembelle District.
The facility which has accommodation for nurses would, respond to emergency situations and health care needs of people whose livelihoods depended on galamsey-polluted river and sea.
Mr Edmund Kofi Eshun, Social Responsibility Superintendent of ADAMUS Resources at Salman told Ghana News Agency in an interview at Ankobra during the foundation stage of the CHPS Compound.
The project which formed part of the Corporate Social Responsibility of the company , is expected to be completed by December 2026 and handed over to the Ghana Health Services for use.
Mr Eshun commended Madam Angela List, the CEO of Nguvu Mining Limited, for contributing to the socio-economic development needs of people within the catchment area of ADAMUS Resources Limited in the Ellembelle District.
He noted with concern that the upsurge in illegal mining activities popularly called galamsey in the Ellembelle District, provided a daunting task of bringing health care delivery services to the doorsteps of the people.
“In response to the debilitating situation, ADAMUS Resources Limited was committed to building more health care facilities in the communities’, he added.
For his part, Mr Patrick Assuah, the Assembly Member for Ankobra, lauded efforts of Madam Angela List for the prompt response to bring a CHPS compound to Ankobra, first in the history of the predominantly fishing and farming community.
He said the community could boast of only one drug store, hence in the event of sickness at night, people in nearby communities, were ferried through canoes before getting to Ankobra and sometimes became difficult to get vehicles to the hospital in Axim.
Mr Assuah said about 100 canoes of fishermen and fish mongers from Shama, Agona-Nkwanta and other places converge in the town for fishing business in a month, which makes a health centre imperative in the event of any epidemic such as cholera outbreak.
He said it had become difficult to respond to emergency cases and as a result, many of the patients died before reaching the hospital in Axim.
The Assembly Member said three years ago, there was a cholera outbreak in the Ankobra community which killed a lot of people in the town.
He said non-communicable diseases such as pressure and sugar level diagnosis must go to Axim due to the unavailability of health care facilities in the fishing community and praised Madam Angela List for the scholarship packages to students in tertiary institutions in the last two years.
He said the CEO also ensured that residents who were displaced because of ADAMUS Resources Limited operations, were fully compensated to build new houses.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/George-Ramsey Benamba