THE Member of Parliament for Ellembelle, Mr Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has pledged his continuous support for health and education in his constituency.
This, he explained, would ensure that preventable health issues were not a problem in the constituency and that children were also in the classroom.
He also said that if the constituents were healthy, they would contribute to the socio-economic development of the country while the children positioned themselves well to take up future roles of leadership of the country.
The MP said this when he donated a 42-inch LG Plasma television set to the Out-Patient Department (OPD) of the St Martins De-Pores Hospital at Eikwe in the Western Region.
The MP, who is also the Deputy Minister for Energy, said in order to make daily activities at the hospital more effective and efficient, an electricity facility had been extended from Esiama substation to the hospital in order to put an end to erratic power interruption.
He described Eikwe Hospital as very important and strategically located to serve travellers passing through the region to Elubo and other communities outside the constituency.
Mr Buah said early next month, the Ellembelle District would get its own National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) office to cater for the district, to avoid the setback in processing claims which normally interruptsed healthcare delivery.
He, therefore, urged the constituents, especially pregnant women, to make use of the facility at Eikwe, instead of resorting to unrothordox ways of medication.
The Government, he said, was aware of the plight of the people living in areas that were not close to the hospital, and gave an assurance that he would do everything possible to ensure that their needs were met.
He called for a collaborative effort to address issues of education, health and community development, saying, “Let us go back to the days of the communal spirit where initiatives were taken to ensure that communities were kept clean.”
“As your Member of Parliament, I will not wait for you to see me only when I am seeking for another term of office; we will work and deliberate on issues together to ensure that we get to the expected end as the Government is working hard to ensure that we deliver on the “Better Ghana” Agenda.”
“We will continue to create the enabling environment for the people to have self-confidence in the fortunes of the country,” he said.
The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Gabi Koethe thanked the MP for the kind gestures, adding that the TV would enable them to do their work without interruption.
Dr Koethe thanked the Government, the MP and the Regional Office of the Electricity Company of Ghana for providing electricity to the hospital.
The provision of dedicated line will not only keep the hospital running, but also save most of the expensive hospital equipment which mostly get damaged during power interruptions.
She also expressed her gratitude to the Government for tarring the road from Krisan to Baku, and asked that it should be extended to Atuabo.
The DCE for Ellembelle, Mr Daniel K. Eshun, thanked the MP for his efforts at helping the development of the district and Eikwe Hospital in particular.
He said in the absence of a district hospital the district recognised St Martins De-pores as its district hospital, and would support it in every means possible to ensure that the needs of the hospital was catered for.
Mr Eshun explained that the assembly was aware of the difficulties people in the community were giving the hospital and, therefore, appealed to them to accommodate it and also continue to render quality services.
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