Garu health facilities get boreholes
The Akara Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound and Woriyanga Health Centre in the Garu Tempane District of the Upper East Region have become the beneficiaries of two boreholes constructed by Voltic (GH) Ltd and World Vision Ghana (WVG).
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Valued at $27,000, the mechanically drilled boreholes were initiated under World Vision’s ‘WASH for Improved Socio-economic Empowerment (WISE)’ programme to address the challenges of water safety and access in the district.
The two health centres receive referral cases from the CHPS compounds and clinics in the district but do not have access to safe water.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, the Corporate Affairs Manager of Voltic (GH) Ltd, Cyrus deGraft-Johnson, noted that the provision of the water facilities at the two health facilities would reduce the disease burden, especially those of public health concern.
He said the availability of safe water at the health facilities would ensure that visitors and patients practised good personal hygiene, particularly hand washing, at critical times and added that it would also enable the health facilities to cleanse their equipment thoroughly to prevent any possible outbreak of an epidemic.
“I would like to commend World Vision for partnering us to make this happen and being a very important ally in our quest to create a world where our business, local communities and ecosystems share uninterrupted access to safe, clean water.”
In his remarks, the National Director of WVG, Mr Hubert Charles, said World Vision was committed to partnering corporate institutions and other development partners to increase access to safe water and improved sanitation for children and their families in deprived communities in Ghana.
Voltic and World Vision Ghana have been partners over the last four years in the area of basic education. Thousands of children have benefitted from this partnership which involves the distribution of lapdesks to children in very deprived communities across the country.
