News:
October 30, 2018
Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa East and Deputy Minister for Finance, Abena Osei-Asare has cut sod for the provision of a new clinic at Jejeti in her constituency.
The clinic project is expected to be handed over to the community in a year’s time. The project which is expected to cost three hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHC 300,000), is being funded by the MP from her share of accumulated National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) fund.
According to the Atiwa East lawmaker, she had to intervene due to the perennial flooding since 2001 that submerged the current clinic, destroys medicines that run into millions of Ghana cedis during the draining season.
The MP together with the District Chief Executive (DCE) Kwabena Panin Nkansah approached the elders of Jejeti community, who provided a land at Old Jejeti for the relocation of the clinic, which is well tarred.
The DCE commended the MP for her assistant and revealed that on the 12th of July this year, she mobilized ten thousand Ghana cedis (GHC10,000) for the purchase and replacement of damaged drugs, whiles the Assembly bought eight mattresses for four affected nurses and four wards.
In addition the Assembly bought five hundred pieces of folders to replace spoilt ones, with both MP and DCE pledging to move the constituency forward in term of development.
AandC Construction Firm is to undertake the project with Nana Prempeh Okogyea as the managing director, as the MP pointed out that there are funds available to the clinic to be completed within a year taking into consideration inflationary situations.
The contractor revealed that the project comprises; Out Patient Department (OPD), a pharmacy, consulting rooms, injection rooms male and female wards with toilet facilities as well as lobby with toilet facilities.
Mr. Eric Atuahene, the District Director of Health applauded the intervention of the MP and added that his outfit was concerned with the health needs of the people in accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) policy of sustainable good health.
According to him, each time the issue of flooding of the health facility was reported to him, it is forwarded to government for assistant.
“The MPs intervention had come in handy, very timely and exceptional, we are very grateful for this great effort” he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com