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Iduapriem Health Centre in dire need of ambulance …they rely on taxis during emergencies
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The Iduapriem Health Centre at Mile 8, in the Adieyie community of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem municipality in the Western Region, has appealed to the government and the Ghana Health Service, to assist in the provision of ambulance to improve emergencies, especially maternal cases.
The clinic established in 1992, as The Spectator learnt, serves farming and mining communities with a population of about 3,000 and continues to face health challenges each day.
The facility serves eight farming communities including Badukrom, Adieyie, Abompeniso and Akrika where cocoa and food crops including cassava and plantain are produced in abundance. The area hosts the Iduapriem Mine.
Presently, the Mile 8 clinic records three deliveries per week.
The Physician Assistant at the Health Centre, Ms Vivian Agyemang, made the appeal through The Spectator on Monday, when Evanex Foundation, a charity organisation, donated assorted items to the centre.
She said: “We need more of the equipment and assistance, especially an ambulance to handle emergencies including referrals. We handle referrals from the Mile 10 CHPS compound and we also refer patients to the Apinto Hospital at Tarkwa.
“But we don’t have an ambulance to handle critical labour situations and deliveries. Our only hope is the taxis, but they close after 10pm. Meanwhile, Mile 8 is a 24-hour health centre.”
Ms Agyemang reported that the Out-Patient-Department (OPD) recorded about 20 patients daily which meant that the four-room clinic was crowded and, therefore, inadequate for the growing Adieyie community and the surrounding villages.
The items were bags of cement, floor tiles, a refrigerator, a set of office furniture, a television set, two mowers and a polytank with a pumping machine attached.
She mentioned that the centre was faced with accommodation, water and transport challenges, and hoped that the new pumping machine would go a long way to save the situation, noting that the Evanex gesture had arrived at a time the facility needed critical equipment and infrastructural development to improve the conditions of patients.
The Chief Executive Officer of Evanex Foundation, Mr Evans Ghartey, said the donation was to honour a pledge to support the operations at the Mile 8 health centre, stressing “we are aimed at improving health delivery at Mile 8 and beyond”.
He explained that the foundation focused on giving back to the less privileged in communities “to make the world become a better place for them”.
“We have to start sharing the little that we have with others and bring joy to the people. It has been my dream to help the community in which I grew up. We are performing this task of giving back to the community.
“We want to promote good health and living conditions of the Mile 8 community and beyond. We will eventually lessen the burden of governments in providing for everybody,” Mr Ghartey added.
The Assembly Member of Teberebie Electoral Area, Mr Manasseh Addison-Sackey, noted that Mr Ghartey, who had lived in the nearby New Techiman community, was well versed in the challenges facing the Adieyie communities, and described the donation as “a welcome gesture”.
He stated: “This is, indeed, a new development for our communities. It shows the commitment he made earlier and the love Evanex Foundation has for the people.”
The Queen of Adieyie, Nana Yaa Saara, reiterated that the call for an ambulance was one critical factor for health delivery and emergencies, especially for women in labour, adding “we can’t afford to lose our pregnant women through preventable situations”.
From Clement Adzei Boye, Mile 8, Adieyie
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has become the new leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after delegates approved a constitutional amendment making the party’s flagbearer its leader.
The amendment was approved on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at the NPP’s National Delegates Conference held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.
The decision makes Dr Bawumia the leader of the NPP as the party prepares for the 2028 general elections, having earlier been elected as its presidential candidate.
The change was contained in one of 14 constitutional amendments presented to delegates by the party’s Constitution Amendment Committee.
The amendments were approved through a voice vote, with delegates responding in favour of the motions.
The latest amendment reverses a provision approved at the party’s January 31, 2026 conference, which made the National Chairman the leader of the party at all material times.
The approved amendment provides for the flagbearer to assume the leadership of the party when the NPP wins an election and the flagbearer becomes President.
The amendment also reinstates the President as a member of the National Executive Committee when the party is in government.
The Chairman of the NPP Constitution Amendment Committee, Frank Davies, explained that the amendments were necessary to address gaps identified in the party’s previous constitutional review.
The constitutional amendments formed the first part of the conference before delegates proceeded to elect new national executives.
A total of 7,163 delegates from all 16 regions participated in the conference, with voting conducted at 31 polling stations for nine national executive positions.
The Electoral Commission supervised the elections and verified delegates.
Other approved amendments include changes to the election of Vice Chairpersons, allowing candidates to contest specific Vice Chairperson positions instead of being ranked according to the number of votes they receive.
Delegates approved the appointment of three additional Vice Chairpersons, the creation of Deputy Communications Officer positions and the elevation of the Information Technology Officer to an executive position.
Addressing delegates after the constitutional amendments and as the party prepared for the national executive elections, Dr Bawumia called for unity and peaceful voting.
He urged the 47 aspirants contesting nine national positions to accept the outcome of the elections and continue working together for the party.
“Let us vote in peace, accept the results in good faith and leave Kumasi as one family,” he told the delegates.
Dr Bawumia congratulated all the aspirants for putting themselves forward to serve the party and urged those who won to reach out to their fellow contestants.
He assured those who lost that the party would still need their experience and contribution.
The NPP flagbearer further reflected on the party’s reorganisation since the December 2024 general elections, saying the party had listened to its grassroots members and learnt lessons about its organisation, communication and engagement with supporters.
He noted that the party had elected its structures from the polling station to the regional level and had also begun preparations towards its next programme for government.
Dr Bawumia said his early election as the party’s presidential candidate had allowed him and the party to begin work on policy development ahead of the 2028 campaign.
He said various policy committees had been established and engagements with different groups and stakeholders were ongoing.
Turning to national issues, Dr Bawumia used his address to criticise the government over what he described as failures to fulfil several campaign promises.
He specifically questioned the progress of the NDC government’s proposed 24-hour economy, the women’s development bank, electricity tariffs, the cost of transportation and other economic challenges facing households and businesses.
On the economy, he defended the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme, arguing that the programme introduced under the previous NPP administration had contributed to stability in the Ghanaian currency.
Dr Bawumia further criticised the government over the stalled implementation of projects including Agenda 111 and raised concerns about the management of the Free Senior High School programme.
He addressed recent drug seizures involving consignments traced to Ghana, calling for a bipartisan parliamentary committee to investigate how such shipments were able to leave the country.
On the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, he accused the government of failing to deliver on its promises to tackle the problem and restore polluted water bodies.
He criticised the government over promises relating to cocoa prices, teacher and nurse postings, the teacher licensure examination and payments to customers of collapsed financial institutions.
These claims formed part of Dr Bawumia’s political assessment of the NDC government’s performance and were presented by him as reasons why the NPP should return to government.
He accused the government of what he described as the “weaponization of state power” and alleged that different standards of justice were being applied to government supporters and opposition figures.
Dr Bawumia said the NPP would, if returned to power, pursue what he described as one standard of justice for all citizens regardless of political affiliation.
He ended his address by urging the incoming national executives to build a strong party organisation, focus on holding the government to account and communicate the party’s policies to Ghanaians.
The NPP’s new leadership structure and national executive team will now oversee the party’s reorganisation and preparations towards the 2028 general elections.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Newly elected National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, has pledged to work to ensure peace, unity and respect within the party as it prepares for the 2028 general elections.
Mr Glover said he would work to strengthen the party and help actualise the vision of its flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, becoming President of Ghana in 2028.
He made the remarks in his victory speech at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi after winning the NPP National Organiser position at the party’s National Delegates Conference on Saturday, October 3, 2026.
Mr Glover polled 2,964 votes to win the election, defeating his closest contender, Ali Maiga Halidu, who obtained 2,231 votes.
Emmanuel Korsi Bodja polled 145 votes in the contest.
Mr Glover thanked delegates for electing him and promised to work hard to justify the confidence they had placed in him.
“I will work very hard. What I’ll bring is peace, unity, respect, and that we use for governance,” he said.
He explained that peace, unity and respect were necessary for the party to effectively organise and prepare for the elections.
“If you are doing governance and you don’t bring peace and unity and respect, the work will be hard,” he added.
Mr Glover acknowledged the task ahead of the newly elected national executives, describing it as a major responsibility that would require commitment from members.
“The job is big. There’s a lot of work ahead of us. We need love. We need peace. We need unity,” he said.
He urged members of the NPP to remain united and work together beyond the internal elections.
According to him, his focus would be to contribute to the party’s efforts to win the 2028 general elections, with Dr Bawumia’s presidential bid forming a central part of that objective.
“Dr Bawumia has to become the President of this country. That’s the vision for NPP, that we have to work hard for Dr Bawumia to become the President of the Republic,” Mr Glover stated.
He said he was determined to use his new position to contribute to the development of the NPP and Ghana.
Mr Glover’s election forms part of the new national executive team elected by delegates at the conference to lead the affairs of the party.
The newly elected executives are expected to oversee the party’s reorganisation and strengthen its structures as the NPP prepares for the 2028 general elections.
By: Jacob Aggrey
