Help us roof maternity home for community - Kpong queenmother appeals to general public

The MANYA Krobo Divisional Queenmother at Kpong in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, Manye Maku I, has appealed for support to enable her to roof the Kpong Maternity Home project she started for the community which is at the roofing stage.

She appealed to the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly, organisations, corporate groups, religious organisations, companies, individuals and philanthropists to help her execute the project.

Manye Maku said there was so much pressure on the Kpong CHPS Compound at Ayipala, a suburb of Kpong, hence the need for a bigger health facility, which could cater for the huge daily attendance at the CHPS Compound.

She said in addition to the huge attendance, Kpong by virtue of its location, catered for accident victims on the Ho-Accra highway. The closest health facilities were the VRA Hospital at Akosombo and the Atua Government Hospital near Odumase Krobo but they were a distance away from Kpong.

Inspection

The Divisional Queenmother made the appeal when she took the executive committee members of the project, including the project advisor, Adbdul Razak Mohammed Zabado; project secretary, Richard Agbalenyo, and other members, as well as the media, to the site at Ayikpala last Friday for inspection.

At the time of the visit, carpenters were busy preparing the wood for roofing.

The 60-bed one-storey project was started by the queenmother singlehandedly, with the Ensign Global College and other donors contributing to the project later. The facilities include delivery rooms, nurses stations, resting rooms for patients and delivery wards.

Donations

Manye Maku remarked that when she made an earlier appeal at the start of the project, notable personalities and philanthropists such as Agnes Carboo in Accra, donated 850 bags of cement in addition to some cash. The Kpong Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Dr Nene Sipim Tekpertey and many others have also contributed generously towards the project.

She said with the efforts put into the project and where it had reached, there was the need for funds to complete the roofing and few other things that would make the one-storey maternity home project complete for use latest by the end of December this year.    

‘’Looking at the efforts we have put in so far, we need money for the roofing, plastering, furnishing of the rooms, and the necessary equipment and all other things that go with a complete maternity home for its immediate use.

“We need to hurry up with the project to avoid certain health incidents that happened at Kpong and surrounding communities for the past few years’’, Manye Maku said.

The queenmother added that the maternity home project in question was about life and those who were touched, such as Ms Carboo, should come on board and be part of the completion.

The advisor on the project, Abdul Razak Mohammed Zabado, lauded the project committee for their time and effort since the project started.

He also stressed the need for donations from well-wishers to complete the project on time, adding ‘’the community members are getting excited and we need to complete it for them on time’’.