The Bole District Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held its Annual review meeting for 2020 with a call on all stakeholders in the health sector, to take matters of health seriously.
Mr. David Bakuri, District Health Director for the Bole District made the call when he officially opened the one –day meeting on February 05, 2020.
He said health was life and wealth and there was the need to pay critical attention to the sector.
The Director urged traditional and community leaders in the District , to support health workers in their areas to deliver effective healthcare services for the development and transformation of the District.
Mr. David commended the District Health Directorate and its key players, for their sterling performances during the year under review and over the years and urged them to keep up the spirit as their calling was from heaven.
Giving an overview of the Directorate’ s performance during the year under review, Mr.David, revealed that there were increased in meningitis deaths from 2 in 2019 to 5 in 2020 in all the health facilities of the Directorate during the reviewing year of 2020, while total supervised deliveries increased from 3,246 in 2019 to 3,279 in 2020.
Outpatient Department (OPD) attendance however reduced from 108,437 to 103,598 in 2020 during the reviewing year, while teenage pregnancy in the district decreased slightly from 16.0% to 15.6% in 2020.
Mr.David also revealed that the directorate had 100% of children less than one vaccinated in all antigens, that is polio, pentavalent, whooping cough, diphtheria, hepatitis B,haemophilus influenza type b and tetanus, measles 1 and measles 2, rota 2, pcv3 and yellow fever.
Mr David enumerated: lack of DHMT building, lack of residential accomadation for health staff, poor nature of the hospital gate, lack of furniture in some CHPs compounds and deplorable state of some of the CHPs compounds in the district as some of the key challenges facing health facilities in the Directorate.
The Director also seized the opportunity to thank Zakart of America Foundation, Mr Ibrahim Mahama,CEO of Engineers and Planners firm,the Bole District Assembly, the Member of Parliament, Savannah Consultative Forum, the former President H.E John Mahama, Petrosol and an individual community member popularly known as Dollar Power for their immese contributions in diverse ways to improving health care delivery in the District.
He urged the health workers in his outfit to continue with their hard work, to maintain the good image of the directorate in the Savannah Region and the entire Ghanaian health delivery landscape and reminded the residents of the District to be wary of covid-19 in the country by observing all the laid down safety protocols outlined by the Ghana Health Service.
Source: yagbonradioonline
