Naana Eyiah donates medical equipment to Gomoa Central District Health Directorate

Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central who is also the Deputy Minister for Interior, Hon. Naana Eyiah has donated a number of medical tools and equipment to the Gomoa Central District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service to enhance their operations.

The items running into thousands of Ghana Cedis were meant for distribution to all the Health Facilities in the Gomoa Central District, especially to equip the newly constructed CHPS Zone Compound at Gomoa Esikuma.

At a ceremony to hand over the items at Gomoa Obuasi last Wednesday, Hon. Naana Eyiah disclosed that the NPP Government led by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would continue to address the health needs of Ghanaians.

She noted that government through the Ministry of Health and other donor agencies were committed to ensuring accessibility to health facilities in every locality in the country adding every Ghanaian should have easy access to quality healthcare delivery.

According to the Gomoa Central lawmaker, the donation was part of her annual routine of ensuring that tools and equipment were supplied to the District Directorate to revamp health facilities and also motivate the various staff.

Hon. Naana Eyiah mentioned items such as laptop and desktop computers, conference and office furniture, office cabinets, wound treatment equipment, sets of laboratory equipment, a generator and swivel chairs among others.

"In the wake of this covid-19 situation, let us celebrate the occasion in modest to avoid infections. I want to urge events Organizers during the festivities to include covid-19 safety protocols in their Programmes and activities. We are not in the normal times," Hon. Naana Eyiah cautioned.

The Gomoa Central District Chief Executive, Hon Benjamin Kojo Otoo lauded Hon. Naana Eyiah for her timely support to the needs of the people especially in the areas of healthcare delivery.

"Am extremely grateful to our Member of Parliament for this donation to the District Health Directorate to boost their services to the people. I call it a timely intervention because hitherto, the Directorate had to move around before getting the system running, it delay the particular facility to operate full-time.

"Hon. Naana Eyiah is making sure that every CHPS compound is fully equipped before it is handed over to the Ghana Health Service. Something which unprecedented in history. I will like to make passionate appeal to authorities to ensure that they carry out culture of maintenance to sustain the equipment to last longer than expected," he stated.

The DCE lamented over the lack of proper maintenance of the buildings and government's properties leading to huge sum of money wasted for repair and maintenance. "We should all come together to protect Government's properties," he posited.

On Christmas and new year festivities, Hon. Benjamin Kojo Otoo advised celebrants to be extra careful in their celebrations bearing in mind that Covid-19 still exist.

The DCE encouraged Ghanaians especially those in the Gomoa Central District to take their vaccination adding there were enough vaccines at the various to vaccinate them.

"So far so good, we have not recorded any incident with regards to Covid-19 vaccinations. Records available indicates that the people are willingly getting the jab," he stressed.

The Gomoa Central District Director of the Ghana Health Service, Mr. George Bempah expressed his gratitude to the Member of Parliament, Hon. Naana Eyiah and the DCE, Hon Benjamin Kojo Otoo for the donation.

He pledged that the tools and equipment would be put to judicious use to the benefit of the people in and around the various health facilities in the Gomoa Central District.

Mr. George Bempah made a passionate appeal to the Ministry of Health to post more health personnel to the Gomoa Central District to beef up their operations.

In attendance were Deputy Director of Nursing Services, Madam Christiana Instiful, District Nutrition Officer, Miss Richlove Ama Nyarkoh-Koomson, Heads of Finance and Administration, Annette Tekyi Arhin and Stella B. Otoo respectively.

Others include the Gomoa Central Constituency Chairman of the NPP Alhaji Omar Adam and his Constituency Executives.