Residents on Atakora Mountain gets clinic

Ho, Oct. 16, GNA - Ghana Support, an international non-governmental organization, has constructed an ultra modern clinic with staff accommodation at Leklebi-Worgbe on the peak of the Togoland Atakora Mountains to address the health needs of the farming community.

The clinic would particularly be of immense benefit to pregnant women who hitherto had to commute about three kilometers to access healthcare at the nearest clinic at Leklebi-Duga, with reported cases of many losing their babies or their lives on the journey.

Mr Suur Maj Zonneld, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Support, at a short ceremony to hand over the about 18,000 euro facility to the Ghana Health Service in Ho, said he was moved by reports of how pregnant women had to be carried on hammock down the mountain to access healthcare with many not going for ante-natal or post-natal care.

He commended the community for providing communal labour with some carrying cement blocks from the foot of the Mountain to its peak.

Mr Joseph Amenowode, Volta Regional Minister, and Member of Parliament for the area, commended the effort of Ghana Support and promised special location allowance to health personnel who would be posted there.

He noted that the only basic school in the community collapsed because teachers posted there did not report and expressed the hope that the health facility would not suffer the same fate.

Mr Godwin Pongo, Deputy Director, Administration, at the Volta Regional Health Directorate, who represented the Ghana Health Service, assured that the facility would be made operational and maintained to ensure uninterrupted healthcare delivery to the over 500 people living on the Mountain.

Ghana Support has been involved in the construction of school blocks, water systems and micro-financing in the country for the past 12 years.