Indeed, good journalism gets results. It is exciting to note that few months after Apexnewsgh.com reported the regrettable condition bedeviling the Talensi district hospital in the Upper East Region, the Upper East Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu has revealed that the Talensi District has been added as part of the government policy known as ‘Agenda 111’.
On Thursday, November 18, 2021, Apexnewsgh.com reported an article headlined: “Talensi District: A land of gold without good functioning district hospital and roads”
In that investigative report published about the struggling Talensi district hospital, below were some of the interesting facts bedeviling the hospital and as well putting the lives of children, youth, aged and the people of Talensi in serious danger.
1. Talensi District Hospital is battling an infrastructure crisis
2. Talensi District Hospital operates from separate locations
3. Female and male wards were together and the ward could only take 8 beds
4. Children’s Ward could take only 9 beds, especially with 5 beds and 4 cots
5. When patients are 10, Talensi district hospital will be forced to discharge a patient on admission to pave way for others.
6. The road leading to the hospital is bad, causing staff, and patients to fall including pregnant women.
Then, officials at the facility who narrated their plights and predicaments about the hospital said they wished they were part of the government agenda 111 which was about to benefit 8 districts in the Upper East Region.
Meanwhile, giving an account of their predicament at the hospital, the official said: “We don’t have the infrastructure, the male and female wards were together, and we have to separate the male and the female and where we are using could only take 8 beds. So, if we have more than 8 patients we have to either move them to the emergency or have to discharge some of our patients so that we make way for others. If we could get a big ward that could help with about 30 because we do surgery and when we do surgery, the patient has to stay but, because of the limited number, we can’t do more surgery”. She narrated
However, then the Talensi District Health Director Madam Estella Abazesi confirmed the plight of the hospital when Apexnewsgh.com called on her for more clarifications.
According to her, “In terms of logistics to build it up to the capacity of a district hospital, we are lacking. We do not run all the compliment of a district hospital, is not all the services that we render”.
However, 7months after our report, the good news is that the Talensi district has been considered to be a beneficiary of the policy.
The project was to ensure that Ghanaians nationwide have access to quality healthcare services and with the National Health Insurance Scheme, boost the provision of healthcare infrastructure and financial accessibility to healthcare.
Agenda 111 project was launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 17, 2021.
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