Akyem Tweapease (E/R), Sept. 3, GNA - Mr Ofosu Asamoah, Eastern Regional Deputy Minister, on Wednesday inaugurated a clinic at Akyem Tweapease in the Kwaebibirem district.

The Community-Based Health Planning facility (CHP) will mainly care for children under five years, register births and deaths, pregnant women, conduct health education with home visits and treat minor ailments.

Mr Asamoah called on the people to take environmental and personal sanitation seriously as a means of reducing diseases. He said the incidence of malaria for instance, could be drastically reduced if communities would keep sound and healthy environments. The Deputy Minister said a community could have a first-rate health facility, but if the people failed to observe basic rules of hygiene, they would still be plague by preventable diseases. Mr Asamoah spoke of efforts being made by government to improve the health care of the people, and said there was the need for them to reciprocate by taking better care of themselves and their communities. He asked those who have not joined the health insurance scheme to do so in their own interest.

To a request by the community that their local clinic should be made a service provider under the health insurance scheme, Mr Asamoah said he would see to it that, it was made possible.