Odumase (B/R), Feb. 09, GNA – The Sunyani West Community Foundation (SWCF) and Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF) have jointly rolled out mobile health clinics and family life education campaign in deprived and hard to reach communities in the Sunyani West Municipality.
The campaign, focusing on women and girls aged 15 to 49 years, is aimed at improving maternal healthcare and child health services in the Municipality.
It seeks to address challenges inimical to the growth and development of the targeted group as well as children under six years.
The campaign is also in line with a project titled “maternal and child health interventions (MaCHI) and further seeks to improve the health status of women and children through improved access and quality reproductive and child health services.
Mr. Martin Djan, the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the SWCF disclosed this when he led a team from the Foundation to pay a courtesy call on Mr. Kusi Buadum, the Sunyani West Municipal Chief Executive at Odumase, the Municipal capital, to introduce the project.
He lauded government’s strategy of strengthening the nation’s health systems and improved skilled delivery as well as enhancing reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services.
Mr. Djan emphasized the importance of strengthening partnerships and community engagements holistically, thereby contributing to a reduction in maternal and infant deaths in deprived communities in the country.
He expressed the hope that the campaign would greatly promote positive health seeking behaviour for women and girls at community levels.
Mr. Raphael Ahenu, the CEO of GLOMeF, and the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Project Coordinator of the Ghana Community Foundation Development Project, explained the SWCF was established to make it easier for community members to put into action their charitable intentions without depending on the central government.
He said the need to form the Foundation was necessary to help accelerate development, saying the government alone could not shoulder the responsibility of providing all the development needs of the people.
On his part, Mr. Buadum lauded the campaign, and promised the support of the Assembly towards its implementation to achieve desirable outcomes.
He expressed optimism that the project would cover most of the communities in the Municipality for most of the targeted group to benefit and improve on health systems.
GNA