Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has donated a high capacity generator set to the Taifa Polyclinic to assist in the delivery of health care to the community and surrounding areas.
That aside, she also gave out 50 pieces of bed sheets, detergents and clean up brushes.
Delivering the items to the Polyclinic at a short ceremony, Friday, Ms. Safo said the gesture was spurred by a plea from the Medical Officer of the health facility.
According to her, the erratic power supply confronting the country, and in particular, Taifa and surrounding communities, is having a telling effect on the smooth operations of the health facility, hence, the gesture to shore up the power deficit.
The Medical Officer of Taifa Polyclinic, Dr. Charles Dewhurst receiving in the items on behalf of the health facility, said with the generator in place, the clinic would soon begin its 24hour service.
According to him, the hospital has for some time now been operating only day services because of the erratic power supply, making it very difficult to reach out to many patients who visit the facility for heath care delivery on daily basis.
However, with the provision of the high capacity generator set, the health center has no excuse to open up its operations.
“Very soon we will be starting night services. As you can see, the main challenge was to fence this facility. That is being done. The power outage was also a big problem to us. Now that we have this wonderful high capacity generator set, we know that that problem is also solved. So, now we don’t have any excuse at all with the night services”, he noted.
The health facility, he added, will also run three new services, dental, eye and E&T beginning May 1, 2016, to compliment the existing programmes.
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