NORSAAC donates to Sang Health Centre

The Northern Sector Action on Awareness Creation (NORSAAC), a Tamale-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has presented assorted items to the Sang District Clinic, to help provide youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services to young people.

The items included a 32-inch LED television set, a video player, office furniture, some chairs, mattresses, disposal hand gloves, ceiling fan, and 1,500 assorted contraceptives, worth GH?8,500.

Mr Alhassan Mohammed Awal, Executive Director of NORSAAC, who presented the items at Sang in the Mion District of the Northern Region on Tuesday, said the support was one of NORSAAC’s initiatives in partnership with RFSU, a Swedish Organization, to reach out to the world’s vulnerable youth.

He explained that young people were at risk of teenage pregnancies, sexual transmitted diseases and unsafe abortion, and that was important for health service providers to design appropriate and friendly service to address these dangers.

Mr Awal assured the Mion District Assembly, the District Health Service, and traditional authorities that his outfit would continue to work with young people to provide solutions to their health problems.

He said NORSAAC and its partners would establish a youth corner in the Sang clinic, to serve as a model clinic for the youth and for youth in other districts to emulate.

Madam Maria Ayichuru, Mion District Director of Health Services, who received the items thanked NORSAAC and its partners for the gesture, and said the support would complement their efforts in providing quality healthcare services to young people.

Mr Daniel Makandan, Mion District Chief Executive (DCE) assured NORSAAC of the Assembly’s readiness to partner with them to execute programmes that would help transform lives in the area.

“All these supports are very crucial to our development, which are in line with government’s vision of empowering young people to realize their dreams,” he said.

NORSAAC, had, for the past 13 years, championed a vision of promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in the Northern Region.