The Sissala West District in the Upper West Region, despite benefiting from numerous government interventions, is still bedevilled with numerous challenges making the quality of life difficult for the residents.

These challenges range from the lack of a well equipped district hospital, poor road network, and high prices of agricultural inputs, inadequate staffing in facilities and schools, lack of a well structured market, increasing crime rate, and poor Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) results, among others.

Mr Bukari Dramani, the Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), made this known when the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, visited the district on the occasion of the National Sanitation Day.

The DCE, however, disclosed that the government had covered 3,697 poor and vulnerable people under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, while registration was still on-going, to enable more people to benefit from the programme.

Mr Dramani further announced that over 300 people with disabilities, have benefited from the Disability Fund, and more applications were still being processed for the next package.