The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister,  Hon. Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo has urged residents  in the area to patronize the National Health Insurance Scheme, reiterating that the government was committed to the implementation of the proposed policy of one-time premium payment of the scheme by December 2010.

He said this when the Ghana Nuts Limited, an agro-processing company in Techiman in the presented a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 312D Ambulance  valued at 27,000 US dollars to the Chiraa Health Centre in the Sunyani West District.

He charged the District Chief Executive and the Sunyani West Assembly to include the cost of face-lifting the centre’s compound in the assembly’s 2010 budget estimates to ensure the provision of quality health service to the people.
   
Hon. Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, former Member of Parliament for Sunyani West, urged parentsand guardians to ensure the proper upbringing of their children for them to become useful citizens.
  
He suggested the need for the community to take up the management of some locally initiated projects including a library complex and a community centre and plough back the proceeds for further developmental projects.
  
The Medical Assistant in charge of the Centre, Mrs Dora Opoku expressed her gratitude to the company adding that the donation of the ambulance was timely and significant.

She said the health centre handled cases of malaria, upper respiratory infection, anaemia, snake bites, accidents, deliveries as well as ante-natal and post-natal care adding that because of "Post Partum Hemorrhage," snake bites, accidents and severe anaemia cases that were mostly referred to the regional hospital in Sunyani.

Mrs Opoku said the centre had 30 beds for its maternity cases and both male and female admissions.
  
She therefore appealed to the government to re-equip the centre’s laboratory and the tile the maternity unit.

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