The Lahato CHPS compound in the Nanumba South district of the Northern Region has received hospital bed from the district health directorate after a Citi News reported that pregnant women were treated on the bare floor due to the lack of a bed.
The facility provides health care services to several communities in the area but is in a terrible state.
Pregnant women were treated on the floor because there was no bed to accommodate them for proper care.Folders and other vital healthcare equipment are all kept on the floor.
The facility is also without electricity as nurses have to rely torchlights on their mobile phones to attend to patients at night.
Water supply is also a significant challenge at the facility and nurses buy water for their use.
There is also no storage facility, making it difficult for them to store water.
Following Citi News report on the situation of the hospital, the district health directorate provided the facility with a bed.
Some residents in the area who expressed appreciation to Citi News for highlighting the problem also appealed to the government to do more for the facility.
“We are grateful and happy because we the pregnant women would no longer lie on the ground for treatments. We thank Citi News for reporting our challenges to the world, and we also want to thank the district health directorate for their intervention, in fact, we are most grateful” a resident said.
“We want to say a very big thank you to Citinews, your report has given us a bed and now our wives and we ourselves anytime we fall sick and come to the hospital we won’t have to lie on the ground. We now have a bed, but we still want to appeal to the government and other civil society organizations to still come to our aid. It is just a single bed, and we want more” a resident appeals,” another said.
The officer in charge of the CHPS compound, Kennedy, also expressed excitement about the development and said it would go a long way to assist in the delivery of health services.
He, however, made another appeal for solar lights for them to enable them to attend to patients at night.
“We are grateful to the health directorate for their response, at least this one will help in our service delivery, though there are still challenges, for now, palpitating will no longer be done on the floor. We have no lights, and so in the night when a patient is brought here, we have to attend to them using the touch light from our phones. At least if the district assembly could give us solar lamps we will appreciate it greatly,” he said.
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By: Mohammed Aminu Alabira/citinewsroom.com/Ghana
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