Wulugu Health Centre receives medical supplies - Gets NHIS accreditation
The Northern Regional Medical Stores has supplied the Wulugu Health Centre, a major referral facility in the West Mamprusi Municipality in the North East Region, with essential medical consumables and drugs.
The facility was virtually closed down due to lack of drugs and essential medical supplies.
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The acting Municipal Director of Health Services, Mr Mohammed Yakubu, presented the medicines and consumables on Saturday, July 27, 2019.
He said providing the medical essentials was a stop-gap measure to allow the centre to become operational.
He said the facility currently had all the drugs and essential consumables it needed to service clients.
The presentation of medical consumables and drugs to the Wulugu Health Centre followed a publication in the Daily Graphic on Monday, July 15, 2019 with the headline “Wulugu Health Centre closed: Facility lacks drugs, staff abandon post”, which detailed how the lack of drugs and other essential medical consumables was hampering health service delivery at the facility which serves about 11 communities.
NHIS accreditation
The health centre was stopped from receiving medical supplies from the regional medical stores for over a year because it was not accredited by the National Health Insurance Scheme until recently.
A letter signed by the acting Deputy Chief Executive of the NHIS in charge of Operations, Mrs Vivian Addo-Cobblah, and addressed to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service said: “We write to inform you that the Wulugu Health Centre situated at Wulugu in West Mamprusi in the Northern Region has been formally accredited following assessment for the first half of the year 2019”.
According to the letter, the accreditation was for a period of four years beginning from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2023, subject to renewals.
Fully operational
Mr Yakubu said with the health centre’s accreditation, there would no longer be shortage of drugs at the facility because the regional medical stores would constantly supply it with enough drugs.
Mr Yakubu indicated that some of the staff were facing disciplinary sanctions for abandoning their post without permission.
Meanwhile, after the Daily Graphic’s publication on the health centre on July 15, 2019, the North East Regional Minister, Mr Solomon Boar, led a delegation to the facility to have first-hand information of the challenges the health centre was facing.
He expressed worry about the development and gave an assurance to ensure that the facility functioned effectively.
The Assembly Member for the Wulugu Electoral Area, Mrs Memunatu Sandow, commended the Daily Graphic for the publication, saying “the publication has yielded positive results and we are very happy. I have gone ahead to announce in mosques and churches that the facility is back to life and for people to visit.”
