Democratic Forum urges Government to Improve Health Delivery in Rural Areas

The Democratic Forum – a pressure group that fights for the rights of citizens in the country has asked the government to as a matter of urgency improve upon health care delivery in deprived communities across the country.

“The forum brings to the attention of the government the devastating nature of health care systems in less privileged communities and by extension the country at large…we believe that these interventions are imperative and urgent even as the country awaits the over 88 COVID-19 hospitals”.

This call was contained in a petition sent to the government by the Forum on Monday April 19, 2021 and signed by its Executive Director Dr. Frank Amoakohehe.

The group said its call is informed by the worrying developments in some deprived communities where in a recent development, a midwife in the Effiduase Asokore district of the Ashanti Region had to carry with the help of some townsfolk an expectant mother in labour on a wooden door from Motokrodua to Adukrom for her to deliver.

The petition observed that these communities are cut off from the main Effiduase township due to bad road network and had no schools or access to health care until somewhere in 2014 when the erstwhile NDC administration constructed a CHPS Compound at Adukurom and a Basic School at Motokrodua.

These communities the petition noted have since not seen any intervention from the current government towards providing a health facility for Motorkrodua or fixing the road network within the area to allow vehicular access to the community.

The two communities, including Tetekaaso also have no electricity coverage and no source of potable drinking water, the petition adds

“It is a sad reality that, the current Member of Parliament for the good people of Effiduase Asokore Constituency, Nana Ayew Afriyie is not only a Medical Doctor by profession but also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health.
A story such as this, emanating from the constituency of the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health raises a lot of questions and gives an indication of how deplorable the health system is in Ghana,” it says.

As an institution, the petition said the Democratic Forum highly commends the invaluable and selfless gestures of the midwife (Miss Delali Gavoh), who took the risk to transport the pregnant woman, for her patriotic and heroic act and draws the attention of government and other organizations to the story.

It urged the authorities to as a matter of urgency and principle, call the midwife and reward her selflessness and brevity. It added that the Democratic Forum shall take the initiative “even as we call on all well-meaning Ghanaians to reach out to the midwife in appreciation of her diligence and selflessness.”

“Pensioner” nation who is over sixty (60) years old, citizens cannot continue to be deprived of basic social amenities more especially when they work hard from dawn to dusk just to meet their heavy burdened tax obligations and called on the government, the Member of Parliament for the area, Ministry of Health and all other major stakeholders to expedite actions in getting the necessary basic needs for the people of motokrodua and all other deprived communities to prevent loss of precious lives adding that the people of Ghana deserve more than better!

Source: GhanaNewsOnline.com.gh