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Group presents medical equipment worth GH₵ 760,000 to Boabeng CHPS compound
Natives of Boabeng, a community in the Nkoranza North District of Bono East Region who domicile in Europe, America and Australia on Friday presented medical equipment worth Ghc 760, 000 to the Boabeng community based, health planning and services (CHPS) compound at Boabeng.
According to Ama Akowuah who mooted the idea said the items were procured through the contributions from the members of the Boabeng Nkosor Group based in abroad to support the health facility to improve on the health needs of the people.
The items include delivery bed, four bed, B/P apparatus, patient waiting chairs, weighing scales, wheel chair, 10 bed sheets drip stand, fridge, funs, Troy, among others.
She explained that the group often meet to discuss deveopmental challenges of the community and appealed to Boabeng natives elsewhere to also contribute their quota to help develop the Boabeng community in general.
The chief of the Boabeng town, Nana Owusu Damoa lll who received the medical equipment on behalf of the people and presented to the health facility expressed his appreciation to the natives for their support and called on others to emulate the example.
According to the chief, government alone cannot satisfy everybody and that the contributions from individuals and groups would go long way to help address developmental challenges of the country.
He however appealed to the Ghana Health Service to upgrade the clinic to a health centre with more facilities to meet the health needs of the community.
The chief also urged the health staff of the facility to take care of the equipment to ensure its longevity.
The Nkoranza North District Mental Health Officer, Stephen Awuti who received the items thanked the group for the donation indicating it would help greatly for the health delivery in the community.
He appealed for a placenta pit, washrooms explaining the Boabeng CHPS compound lack those facility, affecting effective health delivery in the area
From DANIEL DZIRASAH
The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
