Volo(V/R), March 25, - The Office
of the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,
has engaged a resident medical doctor to revitalise the Volo Samsung Digital
Village with modern health equipment.
The 800,000 dollar facility,
which runs on solar, built in 2016 by Samsung through the Office of the MP, is
to enhance healthcare delivery in the Community.
At a medical outreach to reopen
the facility, Mr Okudzeto said the Medical Officer, to be stationed at the St.
Anne’s Polyclinic at Tagadzi, would have oversight responsibilities over the
Digital Village, which would run monthly health outreach programmes.
He said the original plan was for
the Ghana Health Service to manage the facility and expressed happiness that it
had been revived and for the first time, the community would have a resident
doctor to attend to their health needs.
Ms Theresa A. Otu, In-Charge of
the Volo Health Centre, described the reactivation of the Digital Village as
exciting, saying it would promote quality healthcare delivery, especially
maternal health.
Togbe Kwaku Abliza VI, the
Paramount Chief of Volo, commended the MP for the commitment to health and
development of the area and urged the people to patronise the facility.
He appealed for a pavilion at the
Digital Village for patients and potable water for the Community, which, he
said, was still dependent on untreated water from the Volta Lake, with
increasing cases of water borne diseases.
The two-day health outreach, done
by a 38-member medical team, screened and treated about 1,000 persons of
various ailments.
Dr Momodou Cham, the Medical
Director, St. Anne’s Polyclinic, said mechanisms were in place to keep the
Digital Village operational to improve access to quality healthcare in the
about 20 communities in its catchment area.
GNA
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