Akyemmansa DCE appeals for district hospital
Mr Tom Budu, the Akyemmansa District Chief Executive, has appealed to the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service to take steps to give the area a district hospital.
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Mr Budu said the facility would save the people from travelling to Akyem-Oda, NewAbirem or Nkawkaw for the treatment of serious ailments.
The DCE told the that the traditional authorities had released a 258.9-hectre land lying between Akyem-Ofoase and Ayirebi for the project.
Mr Budu said Akyemmansa was the second largest cocoa producer in the Eastern Region and, therefore, a very important contributor to the economy of the country, but it was highly deprived and the absence of a hospital, coupled with other challenges, made it difficult for staff to accept posting to the area.
He said in the interim, the Brenase Health Centre should be upgraded into a polyclinic to be manned by a medical officer.
The assembly, he said, was putting up a four-unit nurses quarters at Ofoase to provide accommodation to hospital staff who would be posted there.
In another development, the DCE has called on the National Health Insurance Authority to open a local office to save the people the ordeal of travelling to New Abirem to register and renew their health insurance cards.
He said after almost eight years after the district was carved out of the Birim North District, it was unfair for the people to travel long distances to process their health insurance cards.
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Akyemmansa, according to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, had a population of 97,374.
Officials of the District Health Directorate say apart from the district not having a medical officer, it has only one medical assistant, three midwives, 76 community health nurses, 22 enrolled nurses and three mental and public health nurses each.