The Awutu-Senya District Health Directorate is putting in place a number of interventions to improve the health service delivery in the area and also help achieve the Millennium Development Goals(MDG) relating to women and children.

Among the interventions are the construction of more Community-Based Health Planning and Service CHPS Zones and provision of means of transport to the personnel to bring the health services closer to the doorstep of the people.

The District Director of Health Services, Patricia Antwi, said this when she inspected a motor riding training exercise for some health personnel in the district at Fete Kakraba near Awutu Beraku in the Awutu-Senya District of the central Region.

About 21 health personnel including 10 females are undergoing training.

The trainees comprising Disease Control officers, Community Health Nurses and other auxiliary staff were from the various health centres in the district.

These are Kasoa, Bawjiase, Bontrase and Okuampa. The rest are Awutu Beraku and Senya Beraku. Madam Antwi said the Directorate has demarcated the district into 35 zones to reduce the size of the communities and give them proper medical attention.

According to her, the size of the population of patients, nurses and doctors attend to, do not allow them much time to delve into individual cases due to pressure.

Madam Antwi disclosed that most of the trainees will serve at the CHPS Zones in the district to be closer to their clients and offer services at any time.

Madam Antwi advised the trainees to take the motor riding training seriously to acquire the needed skills and apply them at their stations.

She appealed for the construction of a District Hospital and a permanent Health Directorate to reduce referral cases.

Source: GBC NEWS