Chiana CHPS compound gets facelift

In line with its vision of giving back to the society, the Tiina Tu Chiana Association (TTU) has refurbished a Community-Based Planning and Services (CHPS) in Chiana, a community in the Kassena-Nankana, West District of the Upper East Region.

The project, which had been renovated at the cost of GH¢800,000.00, will serve as a relief to health workers in the facility who, hitherto, were crumbling in a dilapidated facility.

Speaking at the handover ceremony at Chiana, Secretary to the association, Mr Rockson Aduah, said the association was alarmed after receiving news that the health facility was bedevilled with a myriad of issues, including a precarious state of the maternity block.

He emphasised that the TTU, established in 2020 with an aim to galvanise the youth, both in the country and the diaspora, to mobilise funds to support surmount developmental ills in the community in many areas of national life, rose to rescue the facility when the situation was getting dire.

According to the Secretary, it was clear the deplorable state of the facility was undermining effective healthcare delivery at the facility, hence the timely interven

tion to correct the anomaly.

“The roofs were cut, ceilings were rotten, and so we thought it wise to take up the project. We have our members in Ghana and China, in the diaspora committing funds to support the project,” he said.

The association also disclosed to the Ghanaian Times here in Chiana that they were undertaking other projects in the community, targeted at transforming the lives of the people.

The District Director of Health Services, Mr Lawal Alhassan, thanked the youth for their kind gesture, stating the TTU had been of monumental help to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the district over the years.

He indicated that the district had enjoyed some collaboration with the association which had positively impacted the healthcare delivery system in that part of the region, and stressed that the collaboration came at the right time as the GHS was implementing an initiative called ‘Network of Practice’ in order to enhance access to quality healthcare.

He also expressed the hope that the gesture would help leverage efforts of the GHS in attaining the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030.

Mr Alhassan lamented the ‘sorry state’ of the health infrastructure in the district, explaining it would take concerted efforts from stakeholders to get the issue arrested to bring renewed hope to the people.

The staff strengthen in the district, according to him, had waned, and it was attributable to the infrastructural woes.

He further revealed out of 52 CHPS in the district, only 22 had befitting structures, and called on the government and its developmental partners to intervene in order to address the matter at hand.

FROM FRANCIS DABRE DABANG, CHIANA