Mosquito nets distributed in Awutu Senya district

Seventy-Six Thousand and Fifty-Eight Treated Mosquito Nets, have been distributed to people in the Awutu Senya District to help curb malaria cases in the area.

According to Mr Sampson Abbey Armah, District Chief Executive, the distribution exercise was carried out by the District Directorate of the Ministry of Health, under the supervision of Madam Patricia Antwi, the District Director of Health.

Mr Abbey-Armah advised beneficiaries to use them for the purpose for which they are intended.

He said the principal objective which engineered the procurement and subsequent distribution of the treated mosquito nets was to keep the people in good health all the time to enable them to play their part to improve the national economy and enhance development.

Mr Abbey-Armah who was addressing members of the District Assembly at Awutu-Beraku on health issues, said the District has 27 health facilities made up of four government health centres, 19 CHPS Compounds, and four private health centres.

He disclosed that land has been acquired at Awutu-Akrampa, near Awutu-Beraku, the District Capital, for the construction of a district hospital.

He expressed the need for the increase of the supply of equipment to the various public health facilities to upgrade them into poly clinics, particularly, Senya and the Awutu-Bawjiase Health Centres.

Mr Abbey-Armah told the house that Madam Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya, is making efforts at securing funding from Turkey for the rehabilitation of the Doctor’s Bungalow and the Maternity Block of the Awutu Bawjiase Health Centre.

The Assembly members agreed to intensify their public education activities in their electoral areas, to create awareness among the people on the dangers posed by malaria and the need to maintain sound and clean environments all the time to ensure disease-free community.