Oppong Nkrumah’s intervention programme for health centres timely – Health Director

The Health Director of the Akyemansa District, Gifty Sunu has expressed gratitude to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency for his intervention to the health delivery system of the district.

The district has about 8 health centres but lacks a district hospital or polyclinic and grapples with poor infrastructure, insufficient equipment and critical staff to administer quality service to the over 100, 000 people.

However, describing Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and the DCE of Akyemansa as ‘Godsent Messiahs’, the Health director stressed, the kind of intervention witnessed under their watch is timely and commendable.

She said the interventions have begun yielding positive results much to the joy of the health workers and people within the district.

“The honourable DCE and Hon MP, since their inception of office has made health of our people one of their topmost priority. In this direction, they have already committed a lot of resources to health care improvement resulting in refurbishing some health centres and CHPS compounds. Nana Chairman, these kind gestures from the honourables is unimaginable for they are barely one year in office as MP and DCE of Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency. Ladies and gentlemen the two honourables have so far proven to be the long-awaited Messiahs to liberate the Akyem Mansa district Health system of its numerous challenges including infrastructural equipment, human resources etc” she disclosed.

The District Health Director observed “the first phase of the Kojo Oppong Nkrumah health intervention programme has so far seen a near completion refurbishment of the Brenase Health Centre, donation of drugs to selected health facilities and this very one we are about to witness. In fact, today I will say we are on a milestone in the history of health service delivery in the Akyem Mansa district which was created 10 years ago”.

Ofoase-Ayirebi MP, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and the District Chief Executive have teamed up to draw a strategic master plan that will result in a total revamping of health service delivery in the district.



The plan includes the upgrading of 8 medical centres in Ayirebi, Brenasi and Otwereso, Akokoaso, Gyaha, Anyinase, Abenase and Ofoase communities, which is expected to be completed by the middle of 2018, the provision of critical medical goods through collaboration with donor partners, health agencies and government and the provision of critical staff to the health facilities in the constituency.

So far, according to the MP, Oppong Nkrumah, two Physician Assistants were brought in in 2017, and an additional 2 physicians and a doctor are expected this year as part of the plan to provide critical medical personnel to health centres in the district.

In his remarks during a donation exercise of health equipment to the 8 medical centres, obtained in collaboration with a donor partner based in the US, Nana’s Project, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah stated that it was their vision to transform the health service in the district.

He noted “the next phase will be the provision of critical medical logistics in these medical centres. Today we are pleased that in collaboration with our donor partners, we are making available medical equipment of various categories to the tune of about GHC200, 000; it includes delivery beds for our sisters and mothers who are in labour, patient lifts for those who are not mobile, IV kits, operation kits, wheelchairs, hundreds of thousands of gloves and bandages, masks and lab test kits. It is our dream and our vision that we will significantly improve the state of medical care in this district as we go through this phase of the medical project”

He continued “the office of the Member of Parliament and the office of the DCE, have come together to embark on a medical improvement project which is in three phases, the first phases is to upgrade 8 medical centres; Akokoaso, Brenasi, Ofoase, Ayirebi, Gyaha, Abenase, Anyinase and Otwereso as I speak to you here currently, work is almost completed at the Brenasi medical centre and at the Ayirebi medical center. Contractors are just starting work at the Otwereso medical centre as well and when they are done the remaining five medical centres will also be attended to"

A beneficiary nurse who could not hide her joy heaped praises on the MP, DCE and partners who made the donation possible and urged them to continue the good work as such interventions are unprecedented and rarely witnessed in the district.



Gifty Sunu was overwhelmed by the gesture and insisted that “these medical supplies if delivered, the beneficiary facilities will now be in a better condition to manage various medical conditions like burns of various degrees, minor road traffic injuries and simple injuries occurring both at homes and on your farms. We will also be equipped with neck colours and have the latest equipment to manage acute emergencies”

She was hopeful that in the long run, the district will be able to have a polyclinic which will attend to the needs of people in and around the district.

She observed “I have personally been involved in the inspection and distribution of this equipment and I can attest that we are receiving high-quality equipment some of which are every equipment needed to create a polyclinic and it is our hope that with the arrival of this equipment it will be able to attract highly qualified doctors into the district and in the near future various surgeries in our district”