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Bibiani MP commissions CHPS compound for Bethlehem

The Member of Parliament for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency in the Western North Region, Mr. Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu has commissioned a Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound at Bethlehem a village near Bibiani.

Date Created : 10/23/2019 5:11:05 AM : Story Author : Daniel Akwasi Nuako/Ghanadistricts.com

The project forms part of five infrastructure projects under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication programme (IPEP) in the Bibiani Municipality.

The MP, who is also the Minister responsible for Western North Region, indicated that the projects were financed through District Development Fund (DDF), under the one constituency, one million projects policy through the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives and GNPC as well.

At a ceremony to hand over the keys to the CHPS compound to the District Health Directorate at Bibiani, Mr. Aboagye Gyedu said, the health facility was government contribution to the improvement of health within the area and to have the health centre and staff closer to the people in order to response quickly to emergency cases.

According to him, it is the vision of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to provide health facility closer to every individual to boost access to health care.

This, he said, is to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG5) which focuses on universal health coverage which challenges countries to ensure the accesses to quality health to ensure that access to quality health care is universal and equitable for all, irrespective of location, economic status, age and gender.

Mr. Gyedu said government is determined to provide a CHPS Compound to at least one electoral area within the country to ensure the well-being of the people.

The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Director of Health, Dr. Francis Takyi who received the keys to the facility, also used the occasion to advise the residents of Sefwi Bethlehem and its villages to register under the Health insurance scheme and tasked others to renew their insurance cards to guarantee them access to the health.

Dr. Takyi said, the facility would also save them from traveling for so many hours to access health care in Bibiani government hospital.

The chief of Sefwi Bethlehem, Nana Adu-Yaw II, who chaired the occasion commended the MP and the MCE for their joint efforts to provide them with this health centre.

He pledged to ensure regular maintenance of the facility to preserve it for future use.

Nana Adu pleaded with the government to fix their feeder roads particularly, from Nzema Nkwanta Juction to Bethlehem.

He said bad nature of the roads was hampering the efforts of farmers to make ends meet as they are unable to transport their produce to the market centre for sale.

Nana finally appealed to the government to provide them with light poles and street bulbs for electrification extension to the new site and other communities like Sefwikrom, Nsiahkrom among others.