March 16, 2019
Minister for Health Kwaku Agyeman Manu has said the Yendi government hospital would be rehabilitated and refurbished when funds are secured.

According to the sector Minister there is the need to replace obsolete equipment as part of a general refurbishment of the hospital.

He further pointed out that the Ministry has taken note of the need to provide a dental unit, laundry, mortuary, re-equipping accident and emergency centre as well as standard neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

He made this remarks on the floor of Parliament when Member of Parliament for Yendi Habibu  Tijani Mohammad wanted to know when the government hospital would be upgraded to befit the status of a referral hospital.

He said Yendi has a one hundred and twenty (120) bed district hospital which provides healthcare services and also serves as a referral facility for all the primary healthcare facilities in its catchment area.

Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com