Yendi gets new clinic

The Church of Christ has built a new clinic in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region.

It was funded by the International Health Care Foundation in the United States of America (USA).

The 30 bed capacity health facility is meant to decongest the Yendi Municipal Hospital which serves as a referral centre in the eastern corridor.

At the inaugural and handing over ceremony, Executive Director of the International Health Care Foundation, Tom D. Carr said the overwhelming attendance necessitated the clinic’s expansion.

According to him, the foundation as part of its humanitarian services started providing quality health care services to residents of Yendi for the past 20 years.

“We have successfully been operating a clinic in Yendi for the past 20 years and the clinic was not big enough so our Board of Directors made up of about 40 different people many of them are medical Doctors and other health care professionals in America and business people made the financial commitment to move ahead and provide this new building.”

He said the Foundation was sponsoring Ghanaian nationals in different fields of health education whose services will be required after graduation.

“In the north of the country is over challenged to get qualified health professionals so we have six Ghanaian nationals we are currently sponsoring in different fields of health education and we have to constantly invest in staff education.”

He commended staff of the clinic for their commitment to service under duress.

The Yendi Municipal Public Health Nurse, Patricia Awo suggested the establishment of adolescent corner in the clinic.

This in her estimation will help reduce unsafe abortion in the Yendi Municipality.

She complained about expectant mothers’ apathy towards family planning.

“Family planning we are crawling, we are not seeing top: a big place like this at the end of the quarter one percent of the women in reproductive health are practicing family planning.”

“We are not saying they shouldn’t give birth to the children but we want the women and husbands to plan their births and give birth to strong and intelligent children,” she emphasized.

Patricia Awo thus pleaded with chiefs and opinion leaders in the area to serve as Ambassadors of family planning advocacy.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana