Ghana Health Service

Health Services in the Municipality can be categorized into Curative and Preventive, the Municipal Hospital Serves as a referral Hospital for the rest of the Districts in the eastern Corridor. The hospital Manages all curative Diseases and the Municipal Health directorate deals with preventive medical cases. However when the emergencies crops up, the patients are normally rushed to the Tamale Teaching Hospital for Special treatment of Surgical Cases. There is therefore undue pressure on the only Government Hospital that serves the Eastern corridor with inadequate staff and logistics.

HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OWNERSHIP

The Municipality has eight CHPS zones. Currently only three are operational. An NGO/Mission – Reach out Mission started the construction of a CHPS compound (Bofoyili) which was at a roofing level in December 2006. It has since been stopped. There are two main private chemical shops and several small ones.

CURATIVE SERVICES

The Municipality has a 115 bed capacity hospital serving a population of 167,651 inhabitants in the Yendi Municipality.  It also serves as the referral centre for the whole of the Eastern corridor of the Northern Region.

RCH INDICATORS

CAUSES OF STILL BIRTH

• Fetal distress           
• Conjoined twins       
• APH (Placenta Abruption   
• Severe per and eclampsia   
• Unknown cause       
• No fetal Heat beat on arrival 
• Maternal anaemia       
• APH (placenta Praevia

CAUSES OF NEONATAL DEATHS

• Severe asphyxia
• Sepsis
• Congenital malformation
• Prematurity

CAUSES OF DEATH

(2006- 3 deaths, 2007- 4 deaths, 2008- 6 deaths, 2009 – 6, 2010 - 3)

• A.P.H
• Eclampsia
• Ruptured Uterus
• Silent Uterine Rupture

HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES IN THE DISTRICT 

• NGOs
• Environmental Health Officers
• School Health Teachers
• Village Guinea Worm Volunteers and Coordinators
• UDS Nutrition Students
• Kintampo Rural Health Students
• Community Representatives (Training ACSD)
• Red Cross.
• Talks
• Demonstrations
• Group Counseling
• Meeting
• Individual Counseling
• Story Telling
• Video shows
• Drama
• Role Play

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME

The hospital has been getting patients from Mutual health organizations since 2003 when the Saboba/Chereponi Mutual Health Organization (MHO) started operations.  But attendance between 2003 and early 2005 were not that much.  Significant increases in attendance was recorded when the Yendi Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (YMHIS) started operations in November 2005.  Since then, there has been a sharp increase in attendance from 43,618 last year to 95,912 in 2009.

This increase brings with it the enormous workload on the few staffs that are available.

Clients of NHIS are still identified manually. 

The claims and other related things are all done manually. 

This is a very cumbersome process especially considering that staff shortages abound in all categories. 

There is therefore the need to provide software that will ease the pressure of work.

The sub municipal facilities came on board in May 2007.