POLICE, DRIVERS ARE PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT (PAGE 35, DEC 9, 2010)

THE Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly will construct a community hospital complex at Nungua next year.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Daniel Amartey-Mensah, disclosed this at the inauguration of the Teshie Community Clinic at Teshie.
The GH¢60,000 clinic, constructed by the Teshie Mannoyaa Kpee Association with support from the municipal assembly, has facilities such as an out patient’s department (OPD), delivery ward, dispensary and theatre.
The facility will, among other things, provide health care to residents at Teshie and serve as a referral centre for the Nungua, Tebibianor and Agbleza communities, both in the municipality.
Speaking at the ceremony, the MCE said the underpinning element of a country’s development depended on the importance it attached to health and health delivery issues.
“It is for this reason that the assembly has, as part of its 2011 programmes, budgeted to procure an ambulance for the Municipal Health Directorate,” Mr Mensah stated.
He commended the association for the laudable initiative in putting up the facility as a way of complementing the assembly and the central government’s developmental goals.
The Municipal Director of Health Service, Dr Leticia Wiafe, noted with regret, the slow rate at which the youth in the area were registering with the National Health Insurance (NHIS) and urged the youth to patronise the scheme.
The Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Nortey Dua, urged the MCE to use his share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund to register the youth in the area with the NHIS.
The Chairman of the association, Nii Abeo Kyerekuanda IV, had earlier in his welcoming address said before the construction of the clinic, the residents often travelled to Labadi to access health care.