Wudzedeke, (V/R) March 24, GNA - Mr Michael Kobla Adzaho, District Chief Executive of Adaklu-Anyigbe, has commissioned a 59,000 Ghana Cedi Community Health Planning Services (CHPS) compound at Wudzedeke and urged the people to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme. He commended the Community Based Rural Development Project, CBRDP) sponsors of the facility, for the support that would serve 42 communities and over 3,000 people.

Mr Adzako observed that many lives had been lost in that community because its people resorted to fetish priests, herbalists and self-medication to solve their health problems. Mr Adzaho noted that 65 per cent of the population of the district were registered with the NHIS and advised rural folks, especially to take advantage of the Scheme to save money for other challenges. Mr Adzaho called for peaceful co-existence among the communities and advised cattle herdsmen to register with the Assembly and obey its bye-laws or be ejected from the District.

Ms Patience Nunoo, Acting District Director of Health Services, said the provision of the CHPS Compound was timely and would enhance efforts at providing door to door health services to the people. She expressed the hope that people in the District would enrol with the NHIS for the Scheme to get money to provide quality services. Ms Nunoo said currently the District could only boast of 20 health outreach zones, one operational CHPS compound and seven health centres. Mr Charles Nayram, the CBRDP Zone Four Coordinator, said his outfit remained committed to ensuring the development of small communities and urged the community and the Assembly to maintain the facility to stand the test of time.

Togbe Awadada Vizaze Adzaho V, of Ziope Traditional Area, commended stakeholders for the facility saying until recently people the people were dying from minor illnesses such as snake bites, skin rashes, tuberculosis, among others. He pledged the readiness of the community to maintain the facility and appealed to the government to connect the area to the national grid for the facility to function properly.