A GH¢260,000 Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) Compound project at Adaklu-Dave in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region, is nearing completion.
So far, 90 per cent of the project, which started last September, with funding from the MP’s Common Fund, has been executed and the facility is scheduled to be ready before the end of this year.
When completed, the CHPS compound would have a consulting room, laboratory, store, pharmacy and a three-bed maternity wing.
The MP for Adaklu, Mr Kwame Agbodza, visited the project site, on Monday, and said that health and education infrastructure would continue to receive priority attention.
“We largely tackled education infrastructure and that has helped to reduce teacher absenteeism to the barest minimum and we also want access to basic healthcare without stress” he said.
Mr Agbodza said that the Adaklu-Dave CHPS compound project was among the latest phase of healthcare projects in the Adaklu District/Constituency, which now had 15 of such compounds.
He commended the contractors, Papatsitsia Enterprise and the Works Department of the Adaklu District Assembly, the project consultants, for working according to schedule and set standards.
The Assembly member for Adaklu-Dave, Mr Christopher Galenkui, said that the CHPS compound would provide a huge relief to residents of the community, who would no longer travel to Ho, to access basic healthcare.
“This will also boost productivity on our farms with more healthy people,” he added.
Meanwhile, a two-unit staff bungalow project for health workers at the Adaklu-Hlihave CHPS compound, which took off last September, is also in progress with 65 per cent of the job done.
The GH¢210,000 project, under the MP’s Common Fund, is also expected to be completed before the end of this year.
The Adaklu-Hlihave CHPS compound currently has two nurses.
According to the staff, the facility recorded a daily average of 10 cases which were mostly malaria, arthritis and respiratory issues.
FROM ALBERTO MARIO NORETTI, ADAKLU-DAVE
