World Vision has donated some assorted health and educational materials to aid quality health and education delivery in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.

The items, which include five medical examination beds, laboratory equipment and text books, cost about 1,100 dollars.

Mr. Francis Mensah, World Vision, Jirapa Area Development Manager, who presented the items to Mr. Salifu B. Kanton, Jirapa District Coordinating Director said health and education were very critical areas needing more and urgent support in the district.

He expressed the hope that the items would assist in improving quality health and education delivery in the Jirapa District.

Mr. Mensah announced that World Vision was undertaking four different projects in the Jirapa District, which include the integrated health project, the education project, the food and security project and the child sponsorship project.

Mr. Kanton appealed to beneficiary institutions to make good use of the items to improve on the quality of services they rendered to the people in the district.

He said the items came at a time the Assembly was making much efforts to reduce maternal mortality in the district and also improve on the standard of education.

The Coordinating Director appealed to the district education authorities not to lock up the items in cupboards and store rooms but to put them to use to benefit the students.

Mr. Kanton said whenever education authorities go round to monitor schools, they often found useful educational materials locked up in cupboards instead of it being released for the use of students and advised the beneficiary institutions to avoid the practice.

Madam Prudence Yiripare, Jirapa District Nutrition Officer, who received the items on behalf of the District Director of Health Services, thanked World Vision for the donation and said the medical examination beds, in particular, were in short supply in the district and so she would ensure that they are quickly released to health facilities.