PAGA DISTRICT HOSPITAL EARNS TOP SPOT IN UPPER EAST RANKINGS 14th AUGUST, 2024
The Paga district hospital, located at the centre of the Kassena-Nankana West District is the reigning best district hospital in the Upper East Region, for the year 2023. The regional health authorities settled on the hospital after rigorous indicators and measurement tools were applied to similar hospitals across all the 15 administrative districts in the Upper East Region.
A Section Participants at the Review |
District Director of Health Services, Mr. Alshassan Lawal who set the tone for the day’s proceedings, explained the meeting’s theme as directly relative to the Service’s mandate of achieving universal health coverage and said the NoP is a strategy brought on board by health authorities which among other objectives, seeks to empower and build the capacities of the sub-district facilities so as to reduce the workload on district hospitals and other referral facilities.
Lawal, Dist. Dir. of Health |
The Director thus hoped that the Authorities will urgently attend to the cries of his outfit so as to help in the effective and prompt delivery of quality health care services to the doorstep of the citizenry particularly, the rural folk at the community level. In the interim, he instructed all sub-district leaders to collate names of all facilities under their jurisdictions that lacked basic health logistics such as BP apparatus kits and other minor supplies and furnish his office with same so that such needs can be immediately handled.
Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive, Hon. Gerard Ataogye who also addressed the meeting said, he always appreciates the trying conditions under which health professionals in the district were working to ensure citizens in the area got the needed health services. He gave assurance that the assembly would continue to explore all available contacts and channels to draw the required support for the health sector. He revealed for instance that, he was in constant talks with authorities in Accra to ensure the timely completion of the district’s Agenda 111 hospital project.
DCE, Ataogye Speaking at the Meeting |
Hon. Ataogye described the health sector as “the engine of life and the sector where professionals really sacrifice to get the job done” and said whenever health issues arrived on his desk, he attended to them with urgency. He also stated that, the Assembly has plans to push onto the SOCO project, a few health facility projects such as the Katiu South CHPS in order to hasten their completion for use.
In a presentation for the Paga District Hospital for the half-year period, Administrator Mr. Cletus Timbabuya disclosed that the hospital actually started as a health centre in 1981 and only got upgraded to hospital status in June 2020. It has a catchment population of 96,572 with a staff strength of 217, across all sections.
Participants Listening Keenly |
Mr. Timbabuya disclosed OPD attendance over the period in 2024 to be 12,713 against 6,680 for 2023. Of the number, the insured for 2024 stood at 10,785 against the 2023 figure of 5,786. Non-insured for the same time frame is 1,928 against 894 respectively. Meanwhile some of the top 10 OPD morbidity conditions for the half-year included diarrhoea, ulcer, acute urinary tract infections, malaria and pneumonia among others. The presentation also revealed that, zero maternal deaths have been recorded with a total of six (6) still births on record.
In a related development, Presidential Advisor on Health at the Office of the President, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare led a team to inspect ongoing works at the Paga Agenda 111 hospital project during which he emphasised the importance the President attached to those projects nation-wide and charged the contractor to double-up his efforts and to deliver the job by end of November 2024. Traditional leaders, staff of the district health directorate and management of the Assembly congregated at the project site to welcome the Presidential Advisor and his team.
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