Health workers at the Adutor Health Center in the. South-Tongu District have appealed to government to support Adutor Development Union and the entire community to refurbish the Center.
According to these health workers, since the establishment of the Health Center by the community with support from the then MP of the area, Ken Dzirasa, it never attracted refurbishment from government apart from the role of posting and payment of salaries of staff.
A Registered General Nurse in charge of the Health Center, Mercy Adjeley who shared their predicament with 3news revealed that a total figure of 600 patients in every month attend the facility for medical services and therefore needed attention from government.
Madam Adjeley said the Health Center which started full operation from a house offered by a native in 1980, and later moved to a more decent building, is providing health care to the people of Adutor, hence they expect more from central government.
She emphasized that for the past 44 years since the establishment of the Health Center, the Adutor Community and its satellite communities have been the backbone for its existence as a health facility.
They provide logistics and medical equipment for the smooth operation of the facility. “The few beds, wheelchairs, lab equipment are all donations from the community,” madam Adjeley stressed.
The Registered General Nurse said for lack of adequate support from government over the years, the center is bedevilled with such challenges as cracked walls and filthy drainage system, lack of beds in the male and female wards, no places of convenience for patients on admission among others.
She said a plant donated to them by the community to support power supply from the national grid is also broken down. The entire facility is battling with only two wheelchairs in the discharge of their work as health workers and the in-charge lamented.
“The Health Center, in spite of these challenges, takes care of patients within its catchment area of more than 35 communities operating beyond its status as a health centre,” Mercy Adjeley disclosed.
The Physician Assistant at the Center, Innocent Zigah commended the citizens of Adutor both home and abroad for their continuous support for the grown of the center.
He noted that the cooperation offered by the chiefs, elders and opinion leaders to the health workers is overwhelming and pledged on behalf of the staff not to relent in their efforts to provide quality health care delivery.
The Assemblyman for the Adutor Electoral Area, Promise Kwaku Agbanyo disclosed that the Council of Ewe Association in North America and Adutor Citizens in the Diaspora had constructed a 4-Unit Nurses quarters to attract more nurses to the facility.
He said Adutor Community with support from their citizens in the Diaspora have decided to construct an Outpatients Department (OPD) to add to existing structures.
Phase one of this project, according to the Assemblyman, would cost the community GHC 500,000.00 as they are poised to execute such project.
The Member of Parliament for South-Tongu, Komla Mensah Woyome said the contribution of the Adutor Community towards ensuring health care delivery from the center is amazing and also expressed his preparedness to support in that direction.
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