Enchi (W/R), March 18, GNA - Members of an Enchi concerned citizens association have embarked on a 40.8 million-cedis development programme to enhance sanitation at the Enchi government hospital.

Projects being undertaken under the programme included a 10-seater water closet (WC) toilet and a public bathhouse for patients and their relations.

Mr Akwasi Adu and Mr Joseph Bismark Ntaah, chairman and secretary respectively of the association who took the GNA round the project site on Tuesday said the objective was to improve sanitation at the hospital and also alleviate some of the problems of patients and their relations.

They said Mr Kweku Cher-Ackah, Member of Parliament for the area, who was impressed with the project when he visited the area recently, donated 30 bags of cement to support it with a promise to supply roofing sheets towards its completion.

They said the hospital's mortuary could not be used for sometime now because its power generating plant has broken down.

The hospital had been experiencing acute water shortage frequently, thereby disrupting vital services, Mr Ntaah said and appealed for support to provide the only major health institution in the area with the needed facilities to enable it to provide efficient services to the people.

Mr Ntaah said the association had been mobilising the people to clean the town periodically to supplement the efforts of the Aowin-Suaman district assembly to improve sanitation.

He appealed to the district assembly to extend an on-going rehabilitation of some streets at Enchi to other parts of the town. Mr Ntaah also appealed to the Ghana Telecom to upgrade its service to the district and provide additional phone booths.