The Member of Parliament for Shai Osudoku Constituency in The Greater Accra Region has appealed to The Ghana Health Service to post only committed Staff to the newly constructed Clinic at Odumse, near Dodowa.
Speaking at the ceremony to commission the facility on 19th August 2021 at the Odumse madam Linder Akweley Ocloo seized the opportunity to thank the Qatar Charity Foundation for financial support but advised the managers of the facility to practice what she called a “culture of maintenance” and tasked them to “take very good care of this the facility just as we do to our own homes.”
She charged yet to be posted staff to own the facility and make safeguard it and every machine that is to be used in the facility.
Madam Linda also admonished the health workers who will be deployed to priority the people’s wellbeing, just as their motto: “Health is Wealth” to create wealth in Odumse by delivering quality health care.
The MP expressed worry over land litigation prior to the construction as she narrates some of the health challenges her people have been subjected to for several decades like “the gap in access to health facilities in the District”.
“As we speak now, the condition in Agortor and other areas is growing worse and worse day by day”, she noted.
The Country Director of Qatar Charity Foundation, Ahmed Mohammed Adam has revealed they have chosen the said community because “we have learned that about 80,000 people these communities do not have a health facility.”
He pledged Qatars’ commitment to supporting the community if they manage the facility well. He also disclosed that their Charity Organization is undertaken about 9,000 projects across the country in the areas of water, education, health, and others.
The facility is to provide healthcare to over 70,000 people from about five communities within the catchment area in the areas of clinical care, maternal and reproductive health, nutrition, preventive care as well as mental health.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah
