The Bole District Health Directorate held a half year annual review with stakeholder as part of the annual health review activities to interact with various stakeholders on the way forward.
The exercise brought together all the players in the health sector including private health facilities .
Addressing participants at the half year review the District Director of Health Services Queen Fuseina Sulemana welcome all stakeholders and said the meeting affords the Directorate the opportunity to interact with major stakeholders for quality health delivery.
The Director mentioned the objective for the year 2024 including comprehensive healthcare,safe maternal and child services,improve nutrition, immunization,conducting SMC among others.
Indicating the statistics within the half year Queen Fuseina said they have done significantly well.
She indicated that in 2023 an out patient visit was moved from 103,653 to 120,089.
skilled birth declined from 98.3% to 97.1% with a maternal mortality move 86 per 100,000 to 53 per 100,000
Neonatal mortality rate and stillbirth remained at 4 per 1000 births representing 4.5%
She said on surveillance for epidemic prone diseases 7 suspected case of meningitis with no confirmed case were recorded.
Yellow fever recorded 26 cases with 5 positives and 5 deaths and COVID-19 suspected cases of 184 and 71 confirmed with one death.
Queen Fuseina additionally outlined other programs including a successful implementation of registration of household on point mass distribution of mosquito net, Seasonal Material Chemo-prevention,school deworming exercise among others.
Among all the achievements the Director said they have recorded three maternal death as a result of late delay by caretakers.
As she expressed her appreciation to member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi, Zakat Foundation of America and Children Believe.
She always mentioned some challenges as in lack of proper office accommodations for health Directorate, renovation of Kwame Kwesi and Jama CHPs compounds.
Expanding Maluwe, Kakiasi, Gbenfu CHPS compound and Tinga health centre, providing motor bikes for health facilities and refurbishing the hospital morgue provision of a port health service at Chache and provision adequate health staff accommodations, the Director noted the above as challenges confronting the District.
Addressing participants during a presentation the Medical Superintendent of Bole district hospital call for support.
He called for stakeholders support to buy a new generator for the hospital for emergency cases.
The superintendent call for support to build a functional blood bank to reduce mortality death.
Including his presentation the Gynaecologist call on the residents to patronize the wellness clinic at the hospital for free.
He indicated that hypertension case are serious in the District and if citizens petronise the wellness clinic they can identify these special cases and deal with them accordingly.
Source: yagbonradioonline
