Pute-Ada (G/A), Dec 18, GNA - The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), in collaboration with some Dangme communities, have launched a Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) at the Pute Presbyterian Primary and Junior High School Health Centre at Pute near Ada.

Speaking at the function Mr Ebenezer Esiamah, the Dangme East District Director of GHS, said the Community-Based Health Planning and Service focused on the health of the people.

He said it was essentially health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods that is accessible to pupils, students, individuals and families in the community. Mr Esiamah appealed to the people to participate in the programme at a cost that the community and the country could afford. He told the Ghana News Agency that the Health Centre would cater for the pupils and students of Pute and its catchments area. Mr Esiamah said it would focus on achieving some important objectives that include improved equity in access to basic health services since the people had to travel more than eight kilometres to access health care at the nearest health centre at Ada Foah.

This would embrace other practitioners like herbalists, native doctors and traditional birth attendants. He said this type of health centre was different from sick bay because it would be mounted by technical health service providers with facilities like those of a clinic and would operate 24 hours daily and during weekends.