Member of Parliament (MP) for the Upper-Manya Krobo constituency, Mr Jeff Tetteh-Kavianu, has supported the Asesewa Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound and the Asesewa Government Hospital with electricity and canteen respectively.
Whiles the CHPS compound has been fully connected to the national grid, the construction of the canteen at the hospital is yet to be completed to ensure patients have decent and nutritious food to eat when they visit the facility.
The GNA Media Auditing and Tracking of Development project team being facilitated by STAR-Ghana learnt that, patients on admission at the district hospital had to rely on food either brought from home or purchased from the market, a situation which was not the best for the health of the patients.
A staff at the hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity said, malnutrition is one of the major health challenges in the district and so the canteen would help to serve nutritious meals to patients.
Since the CHPS compound had no electricity, nurses had to send infant routine vaccines to their homes to be kept refrigerated.
The MP said he was moved by the plight of staff at the clinic who have to send vaccines sometimes to their private homes for storage for lack of power at the facility and the inability of the staff to work at night.
Mr Tetteh-Kavianu said the electrification project would be extended to other health facilities in the constituency.
