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Torgorme Health Centre faces serious challenges

The Torgorme Health Centre in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region is facing serious infrastructural and other challenges.

Date Created : 8/27/2018 5:07:43 AM : Story Author : Ivy Setordjie

The situation is so bad that quality healthcare services to clients in the area are being compromised.

The Torgorme area is one of the seven remotest traditional areas of the North Tongu District. Its health centre which serves dozens of communities with a population of more than 4000 is crying for help.

Since its construction several decades ago, the health centre has not seen any major resonation exercise.

In spite of this, the nurses and staff there continue to provide all manner of services to the people including OPD, ante-natal care as well as free maternal care services not leaving out supervised deliveries.

Currently, there are cracks in parts of the building. Some of the doors and windows are falling apart.

The septic tank behind the building is broken down causing stench and the spread of human excreta around the area anytime there is heavy downpour. The Health Centre does not have water supply facility. Staffs at the centre buy their own water for use some of which also caters for delivery purposes.

Staff of the facility including the Midwives also lives about 200 metres away from the Health Centre, raising a lot of security concerns for the staff during emergency calls for duty particularly in the night. Bertha Appiah is a Midwife at the Torgorme Health Centre.

District Chief Executive for the area, Richard Collins Arku Joy News that the Assembly would do everything possible to address the concerns of the staff. According to him, the provision of quality healthcare to the people is of major concern to government.