The facilities which were built by the Assembly, have been furnished with mattresses, delivery beds and electrical gadgets including television sets, cooking stoves and fridges – all at a total cost of GHC 86,000.
The beneficiary CHPS compounds are the Ayopia, Gowrie, Amanga and Apaatanga.
The District is the first to furnish CHPS compounds in the Region.
Many District Directors of the Ghana Health Service in the Region, on different platforms, have complained about empty CHPS compounds and appealed to District Assemblies to furnish them.
The Directors had said non-furnished compounds did not only affect efficient health delivery at the CHPS compounds, but also discouraged Community Health Nurses and other health staff from staying in the facilities.
Presenting the items to Mrs Juliana Anam-erima, the Bongo District Director of Health, Mr Alexis Ayamdor, the District Chief Executive, said non-furnished CHPS compounds affected efficient health delivery at the community level.
He said this prompted the Assembly to start furnishing the compounds and providing them with boreholes and KVIP toilets.
The District Director of the GHS commended the Bongo District Assembly for building 36 functional CHPS zones in the District and said so far the District was among the thirteen Districts in the Region to be blessed with many CHPs compounds.
She said the CHPs compounds had contributed significantly to the reduction of maternal and infant mortality in the District and more so the District recorded zero maternal deaths last year.
Source: GNA
By Samuel Akapule
