Abura Bando to get CHPS Compound
The Yaaba Foundation, a UK-based non-governmental organisation in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has embarked on a project to construct a modern Community Health Implementation Planning System (CHPS) compound at Abura Bando .
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The project is being financed jointly by the foundation and the GHS whilst the townspeople will provide communal labour and local building materials.
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When completed, the facility which will have a maternity ward, an out-patient department, wards and a family planning unit, will serve over eight communities within the catchment area to help reduce maternal mortality, child mortality and teenage pregnancies.
The Central Regional Minister, Mr Aquainas Tawiah Quansah, who was assisted by Nana Osam IV Omankrado of Bando to perform the sod-cutting for the project at Bando last Saturday, commended the chiefs and people for their foresight in providing land for the health facility.
Mr Tawiah Quansah advised the people to take advantage of the project to improve their health and also embark on good sanitation ventures to avoid preventable diseases.
For his part, Nana Osam, known in private life as Mr Jonathan Abraham and also the Chief Executive Officer of Abraham Construction and Electrical Company, said the chiefs and people rooted for the CHPS compound for its health benefits instead of a proposed community centre.
Health delivery service
Nana Osam said the project would make health delivery services easily accessible to the people and therefore ease the pressure on the CHIPS compoud at Obohen which was about 10 kilometres away.
The Director of the Yaaba Foundation, Nana Ohenmaa Yaaba, aka Mrs Agyemang, said the foundation adopted Bando and provided facilities to improve the living conditions of the people and the vulnerable, especially women and children since it was a deprived farming community.
Equipment
She said the foundation would help to equip the centre to enable it to deliver effective health services to the people and that last year the foundation donated some medical items including anti-snake bite vaccines to the centre.
Both Madam Irene Duncan-Adanusa, a former General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers and Mrs Ankrah, Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District Director of the GHS, commended the Yaaba Foundation, the chiefs and people for initiating the project.