The Gomoa East District Health Director, Felix Agyeman Adipare, has lauded the construction of a clinic at the T. I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School by the Meena Breast Cancer Foundation.
According to him, the facility will increase health access and address breast cancer issues.
He was confident that the new facility would ease the pressure on existing facilities in the district.
“Apart from easing access to health, it will also improve financial benefits to the resident as travel time to access health services will be saved,” Mr Adipare added. “Currently, there is a lot of pressure on existing health facilities as the population in the district keeps increasing. This gesture will go a long way to help ease the pressure”.
The school, established over 50 years ago, has no health facility. Therefore, a part of its dilapidated dining hall has been converted into an infirmary.
The clinic, estimated to cost around GHC450,000, will have a consulting room, two wards, a dispensary, a theatre, a nurses station, Out Patient Department, a laboratory and five washrooms.
“We pledge our unflinching support to the construction and maintenance of this project,” he said at the sod-cutting ceremony.
Agyeman Adipare also promised to collaborate with the facility and school authorities to post health professionals to the clinic.
“We will provide the expertise needed to man this facility,” he said.
On his part, an oncology nurse at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Eric Brobbey, reiterated the need for regular breast screening.
“Do not wait till October before checking your breast; it is important to check all year round to avoid needless complications and death.”
The Meena Breast Cancer Foundation was launched on October 6, 2022, in Accra in memory of Mrs Amina Oppong Kwarteng, who died of breast cancer on July 18, 2022.
