The Asuboi and Adaa
CHPS Compounds which have been completed and furnished with the necessary
equipment by Tano South Municipal Assembly have been duly commissioned and
handled over to the communities by MCE for Tano South, Collins Offinam Takyi (Hon.).
First picture indicates the clinic whilst
dignitaries are cutting the tape to handle over the building to community
members
A durbar which held at
Asuboi and Adaa to make Collins Offinam Takyi (Hon) commissioned the clinics;
Mr Arthur Kingsly, the disease control officer who spoke on behalf of Tano
South Municipal Health Director said the commissioning of CHPS Compounds marks
a historic event for the residents of Asuboi and Adaa and thanked them for
coming in their numbers to support the programme. Mr. Arthur explained that one
of the policies of Ghana Health Service indicates that, sick people are
required to seek medical attention whenever they move hundred metres away from
their abodes and expressed that it is upon that reason the CHPS Compounds have
been provided for the two communities by Tano South Municipal Assembly.
He said Ghanaians have
poor maintenance culture and for that matter, Tano South Municipal Health
Directorate has collaborated with Tano South Municipal Assembly to institute a
committee to collaborate with the opinion leaders in the community for the
management of the CHPS Compounds and urged committee members to work hard to
ensure they maintain the clinics to make the clinics serve their intended
purposes.
Mr. Arthur outlined
some of the activities which will be carried out by the workers of the clinics
and mentioned child weighing and family planning activities etc. and informed
workers of the clinics to respect the community members to make the community
members to be able to attend the clinics to seek the support of the workers.
The Municipal disease
control officer speaking at the function
The MCE for Tano South,
Collins Offinam Takyi (Hon.) thanked all participants for making time out of
their busy schedule to attend the programme and extended greetings from the
offices of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the
Republic of Ghana, the Ahafo Regional Minister and his deputy to all manner of
people who came from far and near to support the programme. Hon Takyi said the
failure on the part of MP for the constituency to attend the programme is that,
he has attended such equally important national programme at Accra and said the
purpose of this programme is commissioning two CHPS Compounds constructed at
Asuboi and Adaa by Tano South Municipal Assembly.
Hon, Takyi said the
Municipality has twenty-one (21) CHPS zones and government through Tano South
Municipal Assembly has been able to construct four CHPS Compounds and handled
over to the communities and reiterated that Asuboi and Adaa CHPS Compounds
furnished with the necessary equipment including solar panel forms part of the
four and said currently, the Municipality can boost of having seven operational
CHPS Compounds and hinted that Assembly is working assiduously to provide more
CHPS Compounds in the Municipality to help community members have access to
more health facilities.
MCE for Tano South
addressing the gathering
Hon. Takyi said the
Assembly has developed strategic plans to construct staff quarters for the
Municipal Health Director and other health professionals that needed to be
given such packages as required by the policies of Ghana Health Service and
stressed that during the 2016 general electioneering campaign, the Flagbearer
of New Patriotic Party promised to introduce one million per constituency
policy and hinted that government is doing all he can to use the fund for
the procurement of ambulance for every
constituency and assured residents in the Municipality to avoid hesitation but
wait patiently and in no time, the Municipality will record its share of the
ambulance.
He said since the
assumption of office by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo – Addo, many
social and economic intervention programmes across each sector of the economy
have been introduced by him and his government to ensure they improve the
living standards of the people and informed both adult and younger generations
to support government to make him implement its policies effectively.
Hon Takyi emphasized
that there are many deplorable roads in the municipality but since government
has decided to execute developmental projects across the length and breadth of
the country, central government has finished value for money audit on cocoa
roads and believed that very soon Bechem - Techimantia – Akomadan road and
Techimantia - Derma Asuoso road will be
awarded for construct by government and used the occasion to informed all about
some of the achievement of government.
At the two communities, each chairman of the
programme thanked MCE for Tano South and Member of Parliament for Tano South
constituency for their kind gestures extended to their communities and said
since water is life, they pleaded with authorities to provide the communities
with portable drinking water and extended electricity to Asubio to help improve
the economic activities of the people.
