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Western Region Health Directorate awards hardworking facilities and staff

The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has presented awards to some healthcare facilities and staff in recognition of their hard work and dedication in the provision of healthcare services in the Region.

Date Created : 3/22/2024 : Story Author : Emmanuel Gamson/Ghanadistricts.com

This was to reward the recipients for their outstanding contributions in providing and prudently managing comprehensive and accessible health services, with special emphasis on primary health care in accordance with approved policies of the Ministry of Health.

The awardees were Half-Assini Hospital, who was adjudged the Best Performing Facility in Peer Review, and Wassa Amenfi East District Hospital, while Axim Hospital won the Best Performing Facilities in Ghana Integrated Logistics Management Information System (GhILMS) Utilisation.

The rest were Wassa Amenfi Central District Hospital and Agona-Nkwanta Polyclinic who were both awarded as the Best Performing Facilities in debt Servicing.

They all received plagues as their prizes.

Three staff members also received the Regional Director’s Special Awards, they are; Madam Joyce Nketsiah, a Midwifery Officer at Asankran Breman Health Centre in the Wassa Amenfi West, Madam Matilda Arhin, Principal Nursing Officer at the Takoradi Hospital, and Mr. Emmanuel Amoako, a Senior Community Health Nurse at Mpohor.

They received citations and digital television sets.

Citations were also presented to Ellembelle District Health Directorate as the Best Performing District in CHPS Implementation and Disease Surveillance, Wassa East as the Best Performing District in Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI), and Tarkwa Municipal as the Best Performing District in Reproductive and Child Health Services.

Others were Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan as the Best Performing in the Tuberculosis Programme, and Mpohor as the Best Performing in Nutrition Services.

Dr. Yaw Ofori Yeboah, the Western Regional Director of the GHS, speaking at the 2023 annual performance review of the Directorate, held in Takoradi, said the awardees had sacrificed, innovated, and exhibited resilience to provide a wide range of services to improve on the health needs of the people.

He said because of them, the Western Region was a relatively healthier place to live.

He urged them to continue to be devoted and committed to their core mandates to help the region and the country realise its goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage.

Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye, the Director-General of the GHS, in a speech read on his behalf congratulated the award winners and said, “I know the great efforts you and your teams have put into the health service delivery space, and in spite of the challenges, I see successes, growth, and achievement and I salute you all sincerely.”

According to him, though healthcare service providers made many sacrifices, “we can still beat our hands on our chest and say we deliver health services through thick and thin.”