The Aiyinase Health Centre, in the Ellembele District of the Western Region, is to be upgraded to a Polyclinic status, and resourced to deliver quality health care to all in the area.
This was disclosed when the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, on behalf of the Lordina Foundation, visited the area and donated medical supplies and equipment to the Ellembele District Health Directorate, for onward distribution to health facilities in the district.
It is the first official visit to the Ellembele District she has embarked on. With a passion to help promote good health for all, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, through the Lordina Foundation, on a mission to promote women and children’s health, is also out to resource health facilities in the country with medical equipment that would help promote quality healthcare delivery.
At Aiyinase in the Ellembele District, Mrs. Mahama presented cartons of assorted hospital supplies and equipment to the Ellembele District Health Directorate for the benefit of the Aiyinase Health Centre, as well as other health facilities in the district.
The Ellembele District Health Director, Madam Elizabeth Conney, the Member of Parliament (MP) of the area, Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Buah, the District Chief Executive, Mr. Daniel Eshun, other executives, and the chiefs and people in the area, were appreciative to Mrs. Mahama for always playing the role of a mother who knows the needs of her children, and going out of her way to meet these needs.
The First Lady said the Lordina Foundation believes that good health is important in increasing labour and productivity for the growth of the economy, hence the Foundation’s resolve to work and promote health, especially, that of women and children.
Mrs. Mahama arrived to a rousing welcome at the Dixcove Hospital, in the Lower Dixcove of West Ahanta District. The hospital was built by the then Chief, Nana Heman, in 1972, and handed over to the Ghana Health Service in 1985.
On average, about 100 patients patronise the Out Patients Department, while some 150 or more pass through on Tuesdays, when various clinics are run for specialised cases such as diabetes and ante-natal, among others. The authorities of the hospital deemed the donation of the medical equipment by the Lordina Foundation as a great relief.
The Omanhene of Lower Dixcove, Nana Akwesi Agyeman IX, and the MP for the area commended Mrs. Mahama for choosing the Ahanta West District, out of the 23 districts in the Western Region, as a beneficiary of her good deeds.
Nana Agyeman asked Mrs. Mahama to remind the President, and urge him, so that together they can grace the occasion of their Kundum festival, come 23rd August 2014, an invitation which has already been extended to the President.