Ada West Polyclinic To Open Soon

Work on a polyclinic at the Ada West District could see the full completion by the close of this year, Adzoteye Lawer Akrofi, Chief Executive of the area, has told The Chronicle.

The health facility is important for the about six-year-old district, because, presently, residents travel to Battor in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region for major health services.

Others travel to the Tema General Hospital or Sogakofe District Hospital, South Tongu, in the Volta Region, because the only health centre at Sege, the Ada West District capital, is very small and cannot provide services to the fast-growing population of the area.

Ada West District is, moreover, becoming a fast-growing business centre for traders, and as it is located on the corridor of the ECOWAS highway, the polyclinic would serve a lot of purposes to commuters in cases of an emergencies.

For easy accessibility to the polyclinic, Mr Akrofi said the assembly would acquire a parcel of land in front of the facility, as talks have already been initiated with the land owners.

In order to avoid litigating with anybody over land for the assembly's future projects, the assembly is working on regularising documentation that cover all its lands.

Moreover, the DCE said: “With the experience so far gained, regarding land in the district, the assembly intends to start acquiring properly documented lands for its future development. This will curtail some of the hiccups the assembly is currently going through.”

For instance, construction of some projects, which should have been at some level of completion now, has been stalled due to land issues, which the assembly is currently working to resolve.

That notwithstanding, other projects like the construction of a three-unit-classroom block with ancillary facilities at Matsekope, and a six-unit-classroom block, also with ancillary facilities at Tehey, which begun this year, are at levels of 45 percent and 28 percent completion respectively.

He said the assembly has awarded contracts for the construction of other projects, including a bungalow each for the District Chief Executive (DCE) and District Coordinating Director (DCD), a slaughterhouse, and one two-bedroom semi-detached staff bungalow, all at Sege.