Builsa North District Assembly hands over health and educational projects to four communities

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Sandema The Builsa North District Assembly in the Upper East Region has handed over two new Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds to the Ghana Health Service in the district to provide quality health care to the people in the Zundema-Siniensi and Yipaala-Chuchuliga communities. The GH 194, 444.24 CHPS compounds, built with resources from the District Development Fund (DDF), has facilities for a ward, theatre and offices and residential accommodation for the resident midwife and Community Health Officer. It would bring quality health care services closer to the people, who hitherto had to travel long distances to access health services. The assembly has also handed over a three-unit kindergarten block with ancillary facilities at Achog-Yeri to the District Education Directorate built at a cost of GH c 105,145.80 also funded by the DDF. The Builsa North District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Bonaventure Adangabey, who handed over the projects also cut the sod to mark the beginning of work on GH c 295, 532.83 Six -unit classroom block a for the Awusu-Yeri community. Funding for the project was provided by the Ghana Education Trust Fund, (GETFUND) as part of effort to eliminate the phenomenon of schools under trees. In his remarks, Mr Adangabey said the provision of the projects is part of the efforts aimed at improvement access to basic education in deprived communities as well as improving access quality health services in the district. He particularly bemoaned the congestion in the Awusu-Yeli Primary School where as many as 80 pupils struggle find space in a classroom and urged the contractor, Messrs Nabula Enterprise to stick to the 6 months duration and complete the work on time to facilitate decongestion of the classrooms. He said it is expected that the project when completed will go to ease the difficulty with congestion and led to an improvement in the teaching and learning in the community. In respect of the CHPS compounds, he said many people in the rural areas were suffering because of inaccessibility to a health facility, hence the need to provide the CHPS compound. He urged the District Health Directorate to as a matter of emergency post staff and logistics to the facility to for the effective running of the facilities. The District Director of Education, Mr Bernard Akara and his Counterpart from the Health Service, Madam Juliana Adiali expressed their appreciation to the district assembly for its unwavering commitment at helping accelerate access to basic education and health in the area by constructing the classroom and the CHPS facility. They both pledged to help make effective use of the facilities in order to create a conducive learning environment for children in the community as well as enhance the quality of health care services to the people in the beneficiary communities. Madam Adiali appealed the members of the Zundema-Siniensi and Yipala-Chuchuliga communities, especially the women and children to patronize CHPS compound and also urged the community members to ensure the new structures were adequately maintained. -End- Writer’s email: Benjamin.glover@graphic.com.gh Quick read:  The Builsa North District Assembly has handed over two new CHPS compound to provide quality health care to the people in the Zundema-Siniensi and Yipaala-Chuchuliga communities.  The assembly has also constructed a three-Unit classroom KG block with ancillary facilities as well as cut the sod for a six-unit primary school block to ease congestion in the Awusu-Yeri community.  It is expected that the four new projects will enhance access to health care and also improve teaching and learning in the district. UNPUBLISHED