Residents of Tarikpaa, a farming community in the Savelugu municipality of the Northern Region, would no longer walk several kilometers to seek healthcare services.
This follows the construction of a Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound by World Vision Ghana, a Christian relief and development agency.
The CHPS Compound comes with a consulting room, labour ward, dispensary, maternity unit and Reproductive and Child Health unit.
The construction of the facility forms part of the organisation’s mission to bring relief to the poor and vulnerable through health, education and other social interventions.
National Director of World Vision Ghana Laura Cristina Delvalle at a short ceremony to hand over the facility underscored the importance of the facility.
“I am proud to say that World Vision Ghana invested heavily in promoting primary health care and nutrition and the impact of our health programme accounts for the reduction in health conditions such as stunting from 48% in 2017 to 31.67% in 2022 in the AP (WVG, TP Evaluation Report, 2022).”
She urged the Savelugu Municipal Assembly to put up accommodation facility to make the stay of workers comfortable.
“I urge the chiefs and the leadership of the Savelugu and Nanton District Assemblies to work together to continue to sustain the gains made over the past 24 years.”
She appealed to both workers and members of the community to help maintain the facility, saying that they must own it and protect it from deterioration.
Mark Ayaba Abugiri, the district health director, eulogized the various interventions by World Vision Ghana and gave the assurance that the community would ensure regular maintenance to preserve the facility for posterity.
“The intervention was critical not only to the health of the beneficiaries but also it will save them money because they had to travel to Savelugu and other places to access healthcare delivery.”
By Nadra Mohammed