Lower Manya MP supports Yokwenor community
THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Lower Manya Krobo, Mr Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, has sponsored the construction of a Community Health Planning Service (CHPS) compound for the Pierngua Yokwenor Community at Odumase Krobo. The project was put up at a cost of GH¢20,000.
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The MP has also paid for health insurance for residents in the community who have not been registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme. Mr Terlabi has, in addition, donated GH¢500 to the CHPS compound for the purchase of a refrigerator for the storage of drugs.
At the inaugural ceremony, the MP said his vision was to ensure that healthcare was on the doorstep of the people, to reduce the child mortality rates in the area.
According to him, he was constructing a similar CHPS compound and nurses quarters at Oborpah, a deprived community in the constituency.
He said he hoped to rehabilitate the abandoned laundry facility at the Atua Government Hospital by November this year and cautioned residents in the constituency to take good care of their health. The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Director of Health, Mrs Irena Offei, expressed management’s appreciation to the MP for his assistance to the Pierngua Yokwenor community and the municipal health directorate.
Mrs Offei said the municipal health directorate had plans to put up more CHPS compounds in order to create access to health care for other deprived communities.She added that to that end, all suburbs had been earmarked to have a CHPS compound with community health officers and community health nurses.
She said Atua Government Hospital did not only serve the communities in Lower Manya Krobo and Yilo Krobo municipalities but also patients from nearby districts. She said the closeness of the hospital to Tema and Akosombo, as well as Adenta in Accra, and Kpong, made it a referral facility because of the rampant road accidents on the Accra-Akosombo highway.
Because of this, she said, it had become necessary to establish CHPS compounds in the various communities to take care of minor ailments.
The municipal health director used the occasion to educate residents on the cholera and the Ebola diseases.
She urged the people to ensure proper personal hygiene and added that anyone with temperature above 37 degrees Celcius should visit the hospital for medical examination.
She was full of praise for the MP and said she was looking forward to more of such assistance from other such citizens of the area.
The Divisional Queen of Pierngua-Yokwenor, Manye Nakuor, on behalf of the community, thanked the MP for his benevolence.