The worrying situation when D


amak Sanitation and Health Watch sighted the woman in labour being carried on a wooden door from Abrokyire, a farming community in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region to a nearby clinic at Boinson for delivery.

A team subsequently paid a visit to the community which is about six and half miles from the health centre to gather details about the situation…Benjamin Barnabas Asalimba discovered that health and sanitation situation is a very challenging as well as road networking in the community.

DAMAK report has discovered residents has to carry pregnant women especially those in labour on wooden doors and other materials to seek health care. “It has become part of us, even though, it’s not easy and sometimes we lose our women on the way to nearby clinic”, resident lanented.

Mrs. Hagar Gyamfi was identified been carrying on the wooden door by men from the community as seeing in the picture on the way to the clinic, which they have to travel miles to access taxi, and hours more to get to the clinic due to bad road network.

Madam Gyamfi, speaking in local dialect “Sefwi”, recounted how the pain of contraction rendered her immobile, leaving her with no option than to rely on the services of the volunteers.

Mr. Gyamfi, the husband also narrated how every passing second of the journey was a nightmare, appealing to nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) to come to their aid with a chip compound and facilities like; emergency delivery, family planning, antenatal services and circumcision, basic consultation in the community.

Abrokyire community residents expressed much worried about the lack of basic social amenitties that they are far from comfort, disclosing it is not a norm for residents to carry patients on wooden doors or tied to motorbikes to be transported to health facilities, drinking from streams and rivers, open defecation.

Meanwhile, the woman successfully gave birth to a bouncy baby boy and has since been discharged.

DAMAK SANITATION AND HEALTH WATCH is calling on behalf of Abrokyire community on government attention to their municipality and improve their standard of living as well as individuals and NGO’s to come to their aid.