The Municipal Hospital and two private hospitals (Otoo Memorial Hospital and Klimovic Hospital) are both located within Winneba. Auxiliary health service comes from the Community Health Nursing School located at Winneba. The School runs a two-year programme to train nurses who provide preventive and promotion health services to rural communities of Ghana. As part of the training, students provide health services to the communities of Ghana.
As part of the training students provide health services to the communities around Winneba. There are also two Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Clinics at Winneba and one CHPS Compound at Gyangyenadze. In addition, there is one Private clinic (Egyir Clinic) and two maternity homes (Bethel and Mercy Maternity Homes) located at Winneba.
Though health facilities in the Municipality are adequate, access to the facilities is impeded by poor roads.The top five prevalent diseases in the Municipality are: malaria, upper respiratory tract infections, hypertension and heart disease, typhoid, gynecological disorders.
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