Course on preventive maintenance ends

Akpafu-Mempeasem (V/R), Dec. 22, GNA - Thirty-nine Government Hospital Orderlies drawn from the Ho, Hohoe, Kpando, Jasikan and Kete-Krachi Districts of the Volta Region have completed two weeks course on preventive maintenance of health infrastructure. The course was under the theme: "Let Us Maintain Our Health Facilities", and sought to inculcate the maintenance culture in health personnel to prolong the lifespan of hospital facilities.

The practical aspect of the course was undertaken at the Mempeasem Health Centre, which had not been renovated since it was built in 1982.

Briefing the Press at the course centre, Mr Sampson Adibo, Volta Regional Estate Manager of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the authorities of the GHS had noticed that hospital facilities had been left uncared for, for a long time. He praised the Assemblyman for Mempeasem, Mr Lawrence Atri for mobilising the community to provide stone and sand for their practical work.

Mr Atri was grateful that the practical course was undertaken at the Mempeasem health centre.

He appealed to benevolent people, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the Government to help to raise the status of the Centre. Meanwhile, this year's anti-bushfire campaign in the Jasikan District has been launched at Bowri-Amanfrom.

Launching it, Mr Charles K. Jamena, Jasikan District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) said between January and November, this year, 700 people were displaced by fire and rain.

He said 100 houses were also destroyed in the process. Mr Solomon Kwame Donkor, Jasikan District Chief Executive, warned that anybody caught setting bushfire would be dealt with severely.