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Regional News of Thursday, 17 May 2012

Source: Solomon Sasu Mensah

Upper Denkyira West MP Donates Ambulances To His Constituents

Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Benjamin Ayeh has counseled his constituents to take their health needs seriously by seeking regular medical check ups and also taking their medical prescriptions very seriously.

He says this is the only antidote to having upper hand over medical complications which is fast taking many lives very sudden and unannounced. Corroborating his claim, he said these days people die very sudden and unannounced because the ailment in them do not show any symptoms and it is only regular check ups that will detect those diseases early enough for appropriate medications to be applied .

The Upper Denkyira West MP said that this way, the conditions will not deteriorate and hence doctors will have firm control over those diseases. He said this when he donated four multi-purpose Ambulances to four communities in his constituency. He has also told them to do regular exercise which has become an important ingredient in the survival needs of man.

‘He said it is important that you do regular exercise to build the immune system and making it more capable of fighting the diseases in your system’. He has also asked them to take particular interest in what they eat since that is what ultimately makes their health.

The ambulances which will be deposited at the various Health posts of the beneficiary communities will also perform multiple functions such as periodic mobile clinics to the communities and their surroundings.

Hon Ben Ayeh said the idea is to make health service delivery very easily accessible to his constituents and then to take care of the people who have advanced in age and could not regularly attend to periodic check ups. Special communication gadget has been provided in all the ambulances to enable people to call during emergency situations. The benefitting communities include Diaso, Ntom, Subin and Dominase all in the Upper West Denkyira West Constituency.

The ambulances whose entire cost is 140 thousand Ghana cedi is from the MP’s share of the NHIS fund which is available to members of parliament, Hon. Ben Aryeh noted that the reason why he decided to invest the money into those ambulances is to enable the communities have easy access to health service delivery during emergency situations and to also curtail casualties during emergencies.

He has promised to pay the salaries of drivers who will be employed to drive the vehicles and also intends to pay for the regular maintenance fee of those vehicles.