Rural Water Development Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, has provided mechanised boreholes for the Kuni health facility and primary school in the Yendi Municipality.
Additionally, it has fixed a broken tricycle ambulance, refurbished and provided toilet facilities for the health facility.
Funded by Water for West Africa, the intervention formed part of efforts to provide safe drinking water for the schoolchildren and enhance healthcare delivery in the area.
Before this intervention, the pupils of the Kuni Primary School always lost contact hours because they had to go home to drink water any time they felt thirsty.
Also, staff of the health facility often abandoned post and trekked several kilometres in search of water for use at the facility.
The facility serves about nine adjourning communities in the municipality with a population of over 4,072.
Handover
Handing over the facilities, the Executive Director of Rural Water Development Ghana, Nathaniel Adam Junior, said the community was bedevilled with several challenges, including lack of water that impeded quality healthcare delivery and education.
“Nurses and members of the community suffer to get water and this has hindered the healthcare delivery in the community,” he said.
He, therefore, urged them to put the facilities to good use to enable them serve the intended purposes.
The Executive Director of Water for West Africa, Ricky Mcwttorte, said the provision of safe drinking water was part of their corporate social responsibility to communities and organisations to improve water systems in Africa.
He noted that quality healthcare delivery would help increase economic activities in the community which would empower parents to take good care of their children.
Commendation
For his part, the Municipal Health Director, Hajara Haruna, thanked the two organisations for contributing to the intervention.
The facility has never witnessed any facelift, not to talk of getting enough water.
Now patients would not have to provide water to the nurses because they have a source of water at the facility,” she said.
Source: myghanadaily
