News:
July 8, 2015
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Techiman South Constituency, Mr. Adjei Mensah has donated a 24-seater capacity hyundai County mini bus worth GH₵96,000.00 to the Nursing and Midwifery Training College of the Techiman Holy Family Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The donation the MP said was in fulfillment of a promise he made to the people.
He noted that the bus would serve as a means of transport for the students of the new College whenever they were travelling for their training practical work and classes to places such as Wenchi, Nkoranza, Sunyani and Kintampo, or the bus would help them in terms of transport need in their training routing activities.
The 24-seater capacity bus. INSERT: Mr. Adjei Mensah (left) presenting the bus documents to Dr. Damien Punguyire (right), Municipal Health Director.
The MP also donated four (4) grinding mills to women groups in four communities in the Techiman Municipality. The communities include Aworopata, Akissimasu, Twimia-Koase and Tanoso Danso.
He said the beneficiary of the grinding mills women groups’ in the various communities were to use them for income generation activities, to reducing poverty and support their children in school among others.
He also noted that the grinding mills when start operation will reduce the long distant the women travel to, for such services before and save them time for other activities.
The MP, Mr. Adjei Mensah (middle) showing them the grinding mills at the handing over ceremony.
The MP appealed to the authority of the Nursing and Midwifery Training College and the leadership of the various women groups’ to ensure good maintenance culture of the bus and grinding mills received respectively.
Rev. Father Paul Miki Gyamfi, the Board Chairman of the Holy Family Nursing and Midwifery Training College in Techiman thanked the MP for his support. He said the Holy Family Hospital play a key role in the health sector in the Municipality and the country at large and therefore, need resources and such support to deliver the needed services.
Other projects the MP said he has executed include donation of cement, roofing sheets to complete school buildings and fix those caused by rain/wind disaster, mechanization of boreholes in the various communities and enhancement of sanitation.
Others include construction of market sheds and roofing of toilet facilities. The MP noted that the total cost of the various projects was about GH₵219, 450.00 and were funded from his MP share of the Common Fund, Social Intervention Fund and Health Insurance fund.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Techiman Mr. Phillip Oppong Amponsah was at the handing over ceremony of the bus and the four grinding mills to lend his support to the MP.
Imoro T. Ayibani/Ghanamps.gov.gh