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We can’t even boast of CHPS compound – Assemblyman for Akunka-Akampaabiisi cries

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The Assembly Member for the Akunka-Akompaabiisi Electoral Area, Shaibu Apoore is worried that his Electoral Area has been left out of the country’s attempt to widen primary health care infrastructure to achieve universal health coverage. This is because the Akunka-Akompaabiisi Electoral Area, made up of 5 communities; Akafua, Asakulsi, Akulbeq, Akunka and Agare has no health facility.

This means that persons who seek health care must travel several kilometres, from their homes to the nearest health facility in Bongo-Soe. Speaking to A1 Radio in Asakulsi, Mr. Apoore said lives have been lost as a result of the absence of a health facility in the area.

“We know healthcare is critical to human survival but we can’t even boast of a CHPS compound for pregnant women and children to attend for health care. We have to go to Soe or Feo. That is a serious problem. When the women are in labour, we pick them to the health centre with a motorbike. Last year, one lady had a miscarriage in one of the nearby communities. That place is separated by a river. Before we could get the woman across the river and carry her to Soe, she had already lost the baby,” he recalled.

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Pointing to a tree close to the Asakulsi Primary School, Mr. Apoore disclosed to A1 News that the tree serves as a ‘weighing centre’ during outreach visits by the Ghana Health Service.

“The tree over there, that is where the nurses will come and do the weighing. It is sad,” he cried.

Mr. Apoore called on government to, as a matter of urgency, consider constructing a CHPS compound within the Akunka-Akampaabiisi E/A to serve the people.

A1radioonline.com|101.1 MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

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