The Assemblyman for the Dekpor Electoral Area, Jonas Jopitoh, has donated medical supplies to the Dekpor Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound in the Ketu North District of the Volta Region to help improve community healthcare services in the area.
The items donated include essential medical supplies, detergents, office chairs, an LED TV, a Generator, De-luxy acrylic emulsion paints and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help improve the healthcare services provided by the facility.
This donation forms part of the Assembly Member’s commitment to support healthcare facilities and improve the health status of the communities within his Electoral Area.
According to him, the donation aims to alleviate the difficulties patients face while accessing healthcare at the facility.
He stated that the items are insufficient and thus called for support from individuals, institutions, and the government to augment what has been presented.
The Assembly Member stated that he would also procure an ambulance for the centre to handle referral cases to higher facilities.
“The health needs of the people in my community, and Ketu North District as a whole, are paramount in my heart. I’ll continue to support the health facilities in my Electoral area in the ensuing years,” Mr Jopitoh added.
The Ketu North Municipal Health Director, Abubakari Sumaila Gariba, and the Senior Midwife In-Charge of Dekpor CHIP Compound, Janice Akua Arku, received the donation.
They expressed their profound gratitude to the Assembly Member for the gesture, which they said would promote quality healthcare in the area and called on other philanthropists, non-governmental and benevolent organisations to support the clinic.
“I have worked with almost all the Assembly Men in this community, even though they are trying well to help, but this particular assembly man has gone an extra mile to do things probably I have not seen any assembly man do so far in this District. He has done.
With the kind of support his giving, he’s much concerned about the welfare of the people, he visit my office almost every week with issues that he thinks is going to affect the lives of his people and that one alone is commendable, apart from that he has gone extra mile to used his resources to procure other equipment that are very essential for this facility, especially the Generator he’s given to them, sometimes we get power outage and when the nurses have to deliver, they used mobile phones and touch lights so if something like this is here, it will help.” Director Abubakari added.
Mrs Ackuekua, the facility’s midwife in charge on behalf of the Dekpor Health Centre’s management, thanked the Assemblyman and his entourage for their support and called for more of such gestures. She advocated for renovations and the expansion of the maternity ward to help alleviate the stress they are experiencing.
The Midwife also raised concerns about the low patronage of the health facility by the people in the area due to financial challenges.
“ Their beliefs is different, whenever something happens for them to attend or seek medical care, they prefer their traditional methods and when their case get to worse point before they will be running so we appeal that it may be something happens promptly, they should quickly rush to the facility rather than delaying in the house to avoid further complications”, she added.
The Ketu North Municipal Health Director urged the people of Dekpor not to rely solely on traditional methods of healing but to regularly attend the facility to access healthcare services.
By Godwin Dzigbanu, African Eye Report
