NGO provides nurses bungalow at Matsekope
The Hunger Project (THP) has put up a four-bedroom nurses bungalow at Matsekope, a village in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region, to accommodate nurses posted to the area.
The GH¢130,000 project has four bedrooms, two living rooms, two kitchens and storerooms, toilets and bathroom.
It is attached to the Matsekope epicentre that currently serves as a clinic, a community bank, a library, a food bank and a conference room serving the area and nearby communities.
The non-profit organisation funded the project, while the community provided labour.
Improving healthcare delivery
In an address, read on his behalf at the inauguration ceremony at Matsekope, the Country Director of the THP, Mr Samuel E. Afrane, expressed optimism that the centre would help improve healthcare delivery in the area and its environs.
“We hope that this centre would improve the community’s access to healthcare services, credit, food security, education, capacity building and other essential services,” he stated.
Lack of water and electricity
He, however, was worried over the lack of water and electricity to the facility and appealed to the Ada West District Assembly to help provide those amenities to the centre.
According to him, the non-profit organisation had contributed to improving the lives of many people in Central, Eastern, Ashanti, Volta and the Greater Accra regions.
“Altogether, we operate in 24 districts in Ghana and since the inception of the THP in 1997, we have mobilised 49 centres reaching communities and approximately 338,000 people,” he said.
MDC oriented projects
Mr Afrane stated that the epicentre building symbolised “partnership, self-reliance, peace and unity” among the cluster of villages.
“The building also represents a classic example of how different communities located in a given area can come together to unite their efforts, skills and resources to achieve set goals,” he added.
According to the country director, the organisation operates 14 projects that contribute to achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals, particularly reducing child and materal mortality, and combating HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The Chief Executive for Ada West District, Mr Anthony Klokpa, said the government had directed all metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to put up at least three community-based health and planning services (CHPS) in their respective areas before the end of the year.
“I am, therefore, happy that THP has done part of our job,” he said.
The queenmother of Matsekope, Naana Adu Akrofi I, was hopeful that the nurses bungalow and the epicentre would help promote personal hygiene and sanitation education at Matsekope, which had a record as the “only area in the Greater Accra Region without any cholera outbreak as of now.”
