Japanese government to help Ghana build nurses’ quarters for Sekyere Afram Plains District
The Japanese government is to support the government of Ghana build a number of nurses’ quarters for the Sekyere Afram Plains District in the Ashanti Region.
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The quarters will facilitate the work of nurses posted to Issakura near Drobonso in particular where an $180,000 first-ever hospital has been built and handed over to the district.
The hospital was built and donated to the district by a Dutch non-governmental organisation (NGO), REDCAPA, as its contribution towards improving health care in one of the most deprived districts in the country.
The Sekyere Afram Plains District, one of the districts created in 2012, whose capital is Drobonso, has over two dozen communities dotted around, but lacks a basic healthcare facility.
The Director of the NGO, Mr Wessel Eykman, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr John Alexander Ackon, and the District Chief Executive for the area, Mr Fuseini Donkor, signed documents to signify the official hand-over of the facility.
The facility has a modern equipment and a hostel facility to assist nurses posted from the regional capital Kumasi.
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Measures have also been put in place to register people in the area, who are mostly farmers, on the National Health Insurance, to ease their plight.
A five-year development plan has also been rolled out to increase healthcare facilities and also make them more accessible to adjoining communities.
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Due to the hitherto bad roads in the area, the government started the construction of a major road linking all the towns and villages in the area and to facilitate the easy transportation of patients to the hospital.
Over 16 kilometres of first-class roads have been completed from Kumawu to parts of Drobonso. Additional 14km stretch of road linking parts of the district is also ready while another 3.4 km Cocoa roads are currently under construction.
The regional minister indicated that the projects were part of government’s equity system, which is to be translated into equality in the near future.
Due to the deprived nature of the district and the fact that people travel long distances to access education, the government under its day secondary school projects, is putting up a day school complex expected to be completed by July.
The complex has 24-tiled classrooms, science laboratories and two libraries.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Alex Adomako-Mensah, together with the DCE, is constructing a number of boreholes valued at GH¢15,000 each to solve the water challenges in 10 communities in the district.
The district can also boast a modern police station, inauugurated recently by the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Mr Nathan Kofi Boakye, the construction of a market, which is near completion and a bridge over the Afram River.