The YUA community based health planning services (CHPS) in the Kasena-Nankana municipality in the Upper East Region have been closed down following an armed robbery attack.
According to the Regional Chief Nursing Officer, Vida Abaseka two robbers stormed the facility, attacked the watchman on duty and locked him in one of the rooms.
They then went to the bungalow where the health workers live, broke into a female community health nurse’s room took away her laptop, mobile phones and all the money she had .
[contextly_sidebar id=”UA1CpPnSX8bbOb5dpfqB8frtOBhoIbfk”]She also sustained a cut on her upper lip and a swollen face after she was hit with a gun after several efforts made by the robbers to stop her from calling for help.
“The robbers then moved to the rooms of the two midwives and told them their purpose is that they want mobile phones, laptops, motor mikes and money.”
“So they took away their monies, mobile phones and told them to inform their colleague community health nurses who they knocked with a gun for shouting and calling for help that they will be coming again and if she dares shouts they will kill her,” Mrs Abaseka narrated.
Mrs Abaseka reiterated that though the community health nurse has be treated and discharged “we have to temporarily close down the CHPS compound because the mental trauma is still too much for the health workers to bare so we have given them some days to rest and provide them with some psychological attention so that when they get over it the facility will be re-opened.”
She added that in the early hours of Thursday, three robbers also attacked a medical assistant at DUA clinic in the Bongo district and was shot at but he was not hit.
The robbers succeeded in escaping with a motor mike belonging to the health facility.
Mrs Abaseka said both cases have been reported to the police for investigations and cautioned health workers to be extremely careful in their line of duty.
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By: Frederick Awuni/citifmonline.com/Ghana