The indigenes of Gomoa Abamkrom in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have cut sod for the construction of Nursing Quarters to house health workers posted to the area.
The project which is expected to cost thirty thousand cedis when completed will provide the nurses with accommodation as a health center built for the community by the ex-while President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills government remains abandoned.
The situation has left the inhabitants with no option other than to travel to neibouring communities like Breman Asikuma, Eshiam, and the likes to access quality healthcare.
The project which will be executed through communal labour is expected to end the issue of avoidable deaths especially among women in labour.
The chief of Abamkrom, Nana Egyina Abam V, after pouring libation to the gods and the ancestors for the knowledge given their sons and daughters abroad for the project, accused past and present government officials in the Gomoa West District of not doing much to address health and road network challenges facing people in his community.
The District Assembly for the area, Jerry Philip Arthur, expressed gratitude to both the financiers of the project and the community responding positively to the project.
He, however, appealed to the government to help complete the project so as to help curb the rate at which the absence of a health center in the area has contributed avoidable death cases.
Some of the women in the area could not hide their joy over the event as they go through a lot of challenges during labor.