Saltpond (C/R), Feb. 6, GNA - Ms Georgina Yvonne Graham Hayford, Mfantseman Municipal Director of Health Service, has declared 2011 an actio= n year to produce healthy people in fulfilment of President John Atta Mills aspirations. Speaking at the Annual Performance Review Meeting of health facilities in the Mfantseman Municipality at Saltpond, Ms Hayford urged the health workers to ensure that the people adopted healthy lifestyles to prevent the= m from contracting diseases.

"If we have fewer cases at our facilities, then it means our people are healthy," she said. Ms Hayford said the directorate had initiated a programme to strengthe= n collaboration with heads of prayer camps and other spiritual healing facilities to enable them to view health workers as partners. She said the teamwork would make the leaders to know the types of diseases they could handle and the cases they should refer to health facilities. Dr Derrick Acheampong Bonsu, Medical Superintendent of Saltpond Municipal Hospital said a dental unit was needed in the locality to solve dental problems facing the people. He said the hospital was constructing ante-natal clinic shed for pregnant women who patronised the medical facility. Alhaji Asuru, Municipal Co-ordinating Director stressed the need for every worker to take stock of his or her performance to know whether he or she was progressing or retrogressing.

He said a second hospital had been planned for Essuehyia and preparations were advanced for the project to take off. Nana Baa VII, Nyimfahen of Nkusukum Traditional Area and Chief of Nankesedo appealed to the government to solve the residential accommodation facing nurses in the municipality. He said he had donated a piece of land for the construction of nurses= ' quarters. 6