The Bole district hospital in the Northern region has been selected as one of the stations of the National Ambulance Service, to help lessen cases of maternal and child mortality in the district.
Vice-President John Mahama, who disclosed this, said the ambulance station would also evacuate accident casualties on the highways to the hospital.
He was presenting an ambulance and medical equipment worth GHC 50,000 to the hospital. The items included laboratory sets, suturing sets, ICU electric bed, hydraulic tables, paediatric and fowler beds.
In line with moves to make the hospital a major health care providing centre in the country, Vice-President Mahama said a midwifery and nursing training centre was to be established in the hospital.
He said the feeder roads in the district were to be upgraded to facilitate the transport of pregnant mothers to the hospital. He said the ambulance presented was one in a series to be sent to the hospital.
Touching on the inadequate number of health staff at the hospital, Vice-President Mahama said he would use his good offices to appeal to the Cuban Ambassador for some Cuban doctors to be posted to the district.
”Government would renegotiate with the Cuban government for the posting of the country's medical brigade to Ghana”
”The programme which was truncated a few years ago was placing heavy responsibilities on Ghanaian doctors”, he added.
The Vice-President stressed the need to streamline the way services were being offered under the National Health Insurance scheme to better take care of the health needs of the people.
He commended staff of the hospital for their sacrifices in the face of challenges facing the hospital and gave the assurance that the government would continue to motivate health professionals who accept postings to deprived areas of the country.
The Bole district director of health services Emmanuel Ewuntomah, earlier appealed to the government to review upwards the tariffs under the NHIS to prevent a collapse of the scheme.
He also appealed for assistance to enable the district to check environmental degradation as a result of the activities of galamsey operators.
He said their activities were making it difficult for access roads to be constructed to the hospital.
In another development, Vice-President Mahama commissioned a 40-seater modern ICT centre for the Bole Senior High School, to facilitate research and teaching and learning.
The centre was built under the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), which aims among other things, to provide ICT equipment and connectivity to selected educational, training and vocational institutions.
The occasion also witnessed the presentation of a 33-seater bus to the school.
Story: Office Of The Vice President
24/2/11
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