Bechem Government Hospital Receives Support

 Picture on extreme left indicates the equipment and municipal health director receiving the items from the MP and MCE

As part of efforts by government to resource public hospitals and other health facilities with the necessary logistics and equipment across the length and breadth of the country to make health professionals carry out effective and efficient work, the MP for Tano South Constituency Hon Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere has donated ultra-modern beds and equipment to Bechem Government Hospital.

The presentation ceremony which held at the forecourt of Bechem Community Centre saw dignitaries like the Hon Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, the MP for Tano for Tano South Constituency, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the MCE for Tano South, Hon. Benjamin Asabel, the Tano South Branch of New Patriotic Party’s chairman, Dr. Peter Asare, the Tano South Municipal Health Director, Dr. Kwadjo Adjei Darko, the medical superintendent of Bechem Government Hospital and Nana Boakye Ansah, the Bechem Twafohene.

In a short but impressive opening address, the MCE for Tano South Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi thanked the participants for honouring his invitation to attend the programme and expressed his sincere gratitude to the First Lady Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo-Addo and her foundation for the release of equipment to MP for Tano South Constituency to be donated to Bechem Government Hospital. Also, he used the occasion to catalogue some of the achievements of government and the Tano South Municipal Assembly.

In another development, Dr. Kwadjo Adjei Darko, the medical superintendent of Bechem Government Hospital said, inadequate logistics and equipment in public institutions especially the health facilities do not make health professionals deliver quality services as expected to the citizenry and hinted that the initiative taking by Hon Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere to present ultra-modern beds and other equipment to Bechem Government Hospital will go a long way to help the hospital and the people in the municipality at large.

Dr. Peter Asare, the Tano south Municipal Health Director congratulated the MP and MCE for their leading role played to acquire ultra-modern beds and other equipment for Bechem Government Hospital. He said the Tano South Municipality could boost of having government hospital, polyclinic, health centre and other CHIP compounds and informed participants to educate younger generation to visit health facilities to seek for proper medical treatment instead of self-medication. He emphasized that the prudent measures put in place by the management of the health facilities made the municipality recorded zero mortality but used the occasion to inform philanthropists to come to the aid of other CHIP compounds.

The MP for Tano South Constituency, Hon Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere said since His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government assumed office, government have been able to execute a number of policies and programmes in the various sectors of the economy including health sector to improve the living standards of the people. He said quality health service is dear to the heart of First Lady Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo-Addo and stressed that it is upon the quality health care service that a foundation has been established by Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo-Addo to ensure health facilities which have limited resources are resourced with the necessary logistics and equipment to make the staff of the facilities perform quality services to the citizenry. Finally, he handed over the equipment to the Tano South Municipal Health Director on behalf of the Bechem Government Hospital.

Nana Boakye Ansah , the Bechem Twafohene who chaired the programme thanked the MP for Tano South Constituency Hon Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere and MCE for the Municipality for their leadership role played to acquire an ultra-modern beds and equipment for Bechem Government Hospital and called all and sundry to support the health facilities since health care delivery or service is a social responsibility.