Mampong Municipal Health Directorate 2014 Performance Review

Mampong (Ash) Jan. 14 – Mampong Municipal Health Directorate recorded 60 still births, 3 maternal deaths, 480 Teenage pregnancies and 125 Teenage abortion in 2014 as compared to 73, 4,349 and 27 respectfully in 2013.

This information was contained in a document presented by the Municipal Health Directorate during their 2014 performance review at the Mampong Midwifery Training School auditorium on Tuesday, January 13, 2015.

During the period in question, the directorate reordered 155 HIV positive cases out of which 54 were males and 101 females as compared to 2013 where the HIV positive cases were 149 with 35 males and 114 females.

Mr. Jacob Amoah, the Municipal Health Director making the presentation said there was zero cholera indigenous case in the municipality in context of national challenge of more than 21,000 recorded cases with 214 deaths.

He identified increasing teenage pregnancies and abortion, poor health staff attitude towards clients, extortion of money from insured patients and disconnection of power at health facilities by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECC) and the need to shift the cost of electricity usage to clients and its effect on the poor policy.

He said the directorate has put in place some strategies to meet the challenges in the Health delivery in the Municipality and this include collaboration with the education directorate to reduce in school teenage pregnancies and eye screening in schools, improve maternal health service related to early Anti Natal clinic, disease control surveillance, improve child survival and increase functional Community Health improvement Programmes (CHIPS) zones and facilitate regular supportive supervision.

Mr. Mohammed Kwadwo Aboasu, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) expressed concerned on the reduction of Out-Patient Department (OPD) attendance at the health facilities in the municipality which was 184,413 in 2011 but now stands at 132,711 in 2014.

He bemoaned on 3 maternal deaths and 60 still births recorded in 2014 and said there is the need to work hard this year to arrest the situation to help the country to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 and 5 which seeks to reduce the neonatal and maternal mortality ratio by the third quarter of 2015 .

He pledged the Assembly's support to any strategy by the Health Directorate to achieve zero maternal death and health delivery in the municipality.