{"id":213047,"date":"2016-05-09T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=213047"},"modified":"2016-05-09T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:34:15","slug":"ga-west-gets-first-chps-compound-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=213047","title":{"rendered":"Ga West gets first CHPS compound [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ga West Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region has commissioned its first Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound at Ahiabokope near Adjin-Kotoku.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will serve close to 2,000 residents of Ahiabokope, Ehukopeh, Agakopeh and Didikopeh all in the GA West Municipal Assembly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213050 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CHIPS-3.jpg\" alt=\"CHIPS 3\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The facility has a basic primary care, patient education and disease prevention unit.<br \/>\nIt also has a maternity ward and an outpatient department.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213055 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CHIPS-1.jpg\" alt=\"CHIPS\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Municipal Chief Executive for Ga West, Sam Atukwei Quaye, said the purpose of the CHPS compound is to help fight maternal deaths and also encourage antenatal access.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213052 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CHIPS-5.jpg\" alt=\"CHIPS 5\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He added that it will also bring health care closer to the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ga West Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region has commissioned its first Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound at Ahiabokope near Adjin-Kotoku. The facility will serve close to 2,000 residents of Ahiabokope, Ehukopeh, Agakopeh and Didikopeh all in the GA West Municipal Assembly. The facility has a basic primary care, patient education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":213051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}