Police open clinic in Wa

The Upper West Regional police command has opened a model clinic for police staff and the public in the regional capital, Wa.

The facility has a consulting room, a dispensary, an injection/dressing room, a recovery ward, a store, records room and a place for children observation.

It is being manned by a physician assistant, three nurses and a drug dispenser, all of them personnel of the Ghana police service.

The Upper West Regional police commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kwasi Mensah Duku, told Daily Graphic that the health centre was the contribution of the police service to the health needs of the people of the region.

He said the facility, modeled on the concept of the Police Hospital in Accra, would treat simple cases and administer first aid in relevant situations to ease the pressure on other health facilities in the region.

Situated at the barracks of the regional police command in Wa, the clinic and its personnel come at a time when key figures, including the Regional Minister, Mr Bede Ziedeng had lamented the lack of health personnel to man health posts in the region.