The Member of Parliament for Mfantseman East, Mrs. Comfort Owusu has presented medical equipment and drugs worth about 55 million cedis to health institutions in the Mfantseman District in the Central Region.

The items were solicited from the Latter Day Saints Charities, a benevolent society within the Latter-Day Saints Church. The items included kits for newborn babies, crutches and medical boxes containing assorted drugs and items.

Making the presentation at Saltpond, Mrs. Owusu said she was aware that development was linked to good health and that the people could come out of poverty only when they were in good health. The MP said that was the second time she was making such presentation to health institutions in the district and promised another one in due course.

Dr Simpson Anim Boateng, Mfantseman District Director of Health Services, who received the items together with Dr Frederick Vormawor, Medical Superintendent in charge of the Saltpond Government Hospital, thanked the donor and appealed to people of the area to help make community health programmes (CHPS) meant to provide health service to the doorsteps of the people successful through donations.

Dr Boateng deplored the rampant power cuts experienced in the district and the lack of telephone facilities in the health institutions and said they were hampering their efforts to render quality health service. He also appealed for the improvement of the road leading to the Saltpond Hospital.

Dr Vormawor for his part, appealed to the government and donor agencies to put up staff quarters for workers most of whom were residing at Mankessim, Cape Coast and Anomabo and commute to work at Saltpond.

He called for the reactivation of laundry services at the hospital, saying the situation where the hospital undertook laundry services at Cape Coast was a drain on their resources.

Dr Vormawor commended GHACEM for donating 200 bags of cement for the construction of toilet facilities at the hospital.