An Ultra Modern OPD Complex Commissioned at Sirigu

01-01-2011               

An Ultra Modern Out Patients Department (OPD) Complex has been commissioned at the Martyrs of Uganda Health center at Sirigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region. The GHC 227,026 edifice has four consulting rooms, a laboratory, an accounts office, an Ambulance bay, an injection rooms and a dressing room among others. The OPD complex is to ease congestion at the clinic since some of the existing structures has become too small to serve the growing number of people who attend the clinic. The center was provided by the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocesan Health Services with funding from NEFKINS through CORDAID, and Non Governmental Organization based in the Netherlands. Commissioning the OPD complex , the Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese, Most Rev. Alfred Agyenta said the provision of the edifice  is an indication that the Catholic church does not only limit itself to the spiritual aspect of people, but  their psycho-social and physical needs. He was optimistic that the facility will provide the medical team at the clinic, on the spot, the necessary comfort to enable them provide quality health care services. Most Rev. Agyenta noted that, through the Catholic Health Services, the church continues to show compassion for the sick and all who suffer as Christ himself suffered adding that the church is engaged in the fight against infirmities and diseases. He entreated all Religious Health Care Institutions to see in each sick person, a suffering member of Christ’s body in order to bring Jesus’s compassionate love to those in pain. The Bishop stressed the need for health personnel to be careful at all times in order to maintain and uphold the good name and high moral standards of the church. He commended Ghana Health Service for their long standing collaboration and appealed to them to support the Diocesan Health Services with the needed equipments and personnel to enable them bring quality health care services to the doorstep of people in the region. The Executive Director of Catholic Health Services, James Tobiga said the Diocesan health service through its sponsors have been able to construct three additional health facilities in the district. These facilities, he mentioned include, a maternity block at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Health center at Kongo, an OPD Complex at St. Theresa’s Health center at Zorko and an eight unit staff quarters at St. Lucas Health center at Wiaga. Mr. Tobiga said the three facilities valued at a cost of GHC481, 268 will be commissioned sometime soon to enable them improve their health care coverage.

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