Residents of Kurugu and eight other communities in the Mamprusi West Municipality in the North East region say they are forced to walk long miles for healthcare.
This, they explain, is because the only health facility in the community was turned into a temporary housing structure for Chinese contractors working on the Pwalugu multipurpose dam project.
Speaking to JoyNews’ Eliasu Tanko the residents said the health care centre completed in 2016 did not have adequate equipment to help it function efficiently.
After a while, the facility expected to provide primary health care for over 2000 people, according to residents was handed over to the contracters by municipal assembly authorities.
“So happened that anytime there is development in gahna we don’t get some in our area, I am appealing to the government to come out and help us with our problems,”
He claimed some residents especially pregnant women have had health complications because of the lack of immediate health care when needed.
We don’t have a hospital in the community so we want government to intervene, come and open this for us,”
Caretaker of the facility Salifu said weighing and random antenatal care for pregnant women are some of the few health care they can provide currently in the facility.
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