By Jerry Azanduna, GNA
Nyansuaka, (Bono East) April 13, GNA – Miss Priscilla Kumi, the Midwife in-charge of the Nyansuaka Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compound in the Techiman North District has appealed for water facility at the compound to improve deliveries.
She said the compound was confronted with myriads of challenges, saying that it urgently required a mechanised borehole and accommodation for the health workers, urging the government to improve the deplorable condition of roads in the area.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview during a visit to Nyansuaka in the Bono East Region, Ms regretted that the lack of water at the facility was making deliveries and other healthcare services difficult for the workers.
She lamented that because of the lack of water facility and accommodation, health workers refused postings to serve in the area.
Ms Kumi also called on the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to accredit and make the CHPS one of the service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Some of the residents in the predominantly farming community also expressed their frustrations about development challenges in the area, like deplorable conditions of roads, lack of sanitary facilities, as well as water challenges.
They said the community had a population of about 500 people and required male and female toilets to stem open defecation.
Mr Obed Amoah, an opinion leader, bemoaned that the only CHPS compound was in a poor condition lacking modern medical devices and essential drugs.
He said acute water shortage had become an annual ritual worrying that some nearby streams which the people largely depended on for water always dried up in the dry seasons.
Mr Samuel Sakyere, the Chairman for the Nyansuaka Youth Association also bemoaned the alarming rate of alcoholism and substance abuse ruining the future of the youth in the area.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Linda Asante Agyei