Asuogyaman Youth Dialogue with District Assembly

A meeting dubbed, "Youth Dialogue with the District Assembly" has taken place in the Asuogyaman district of Eastern Region.

The meeting which was organised by the Youth Bridge Foundation, (YBF) and sponsored by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was to provide the youth a platform to interact with some officials of the Assembly.

Issues of vital concern to the youth including the lack of job opportunities, lack of electricity in some communities which effected education of the young people as they could not study after school hours were raised.

According to them, "their poor performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was as a result of their inability to revise their notes after the normal school house due to the absence of electricity."

They also highlight that due to lack of clinic, pharmacy shops and Drugs stores in some, some of them lose they

Other concerns raised included poor sanitation, lack of toilet facilities, lack of potable drinking water and the high rate of teenage pregnancy.

Yokwenor gets chips compound

A mother at chips centre

 A new Community Health Improvement Services (CHIPS) Compound equipped with facilities has been inaugurated at Yokwenor in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality of the Eastern Region.

 The Health centre was sponsored by Socio serve- Ghana, a non- governmental organisation based in Akosombo and with a joint effort from the Member of Parliament for the area, Mr. Ebenezer Okletey Teilabi and other philanthropic organisations.

The programmes manageress of Socio serve- Ghana, Ms. Rita Ntoso, said the centre was committed to offering high class services and carrying out a wide range of investigations on patient’s conditions for the right treatment.

She said, the objective of Socio serve- Ghana was to team up with hospitals to bring health care to the door step of every individual, especially, the pregnant women to avoid maternal deaths.

She explained that most pregnant women did not attend antenatal care due to the distance they had to travel adding that bringing the centre closer would encourage them to frequently utilise the facility.

Inaugurating the centre, the Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Mr. Ebenezer Okletey Teilabi, said providing access to quality health care should be the priority of every leader, adding that the human resource of a country could not be enhanced when the citizenry did not have access to quality health care and not heathy to work.

 Mr. Teilabi, therefore, promised to register 300 under- privileged people into the National Health Insurance Scheme to enable them to access the health facilityhttp://www.ritefmonline.org/agro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1861:yokwenor-gets-chips-compound&catid=65:featured-articles&Itemid=126