Asuogyaman District Assembly gets Japanese grant to construct CHPS block

The Japan Embassy yesterday, released a grant of $120,175 to the Asuogyaman District Assembly for the construction of the Dodi-Asantekrom Community–based Health Planning and Service (CHPS ) compound.
To be completed in 12 months, the project entails the construction of a CHPS block with staff accommodation and the provision of furniture and medical equipment.

The initiative is estimated to benefit the Dodi-Asantekrom CHPS zone which comprises nine communities, including Ezorkofe, Dorforkpodzi, Adzabui, Salaofe, Klege, Mawekpor, Wayo and Tsitsikope, all located along the Volta River on the Dodi-Island.

Currently, the Dodi-Asantekrom CHPS zone has no health facility to provide health service to the communities in its catchment area.

As a result, members of the various communities, including pregnant women and children, travel more than six kilometres, usually through inaccessible, mountainous and narrow roads or by boats to the nearest health facility, the already congested Boso Health Centre.

The project, when completed, is expected to improve access to basic health service in the nine communities of about 5000 people.

Addressing the gathering at a short ceremony in Accra, the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Naoto Nikai, said the facility, when completed, would bridge equity gaps in accessing quality health services, and diseases such as malaria, bilharzia, waist pains and skin infections would reduce.

By Zainabu Issah/Daily Graphic/Ghana