Mr Stephen Bordotsiah, the immediate past Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Bolgatanga Municipality, has commissioned a diagnostic laboratory and disease control unit for the Sumbrungu Health Centre.
The self-initiated project was started in 2024 with seed capital from Mr Bordotsiah, who donated his allowances from the annual Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) exercise in the Municipality, towards the project after several appeals for support from community members proved futile.
Prior to the construction, the Sumbrungu Health Centre, which serves as central referral facility for Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds in the area, and one of the hubs for the Network of Practice (NoP), relied on private laboratories for diagnostic services.
At a brief ceremony to commission the facility, Mr Bordotsiah commended philanthropists including staff for their financial contributions and physical involvement in the construction work.
“This laboratory is ready because of the contributions and the support of all of us. At least, when community members visit for healthcare service, some basic laboratory investigations can now be done.
“In all, the team has been very supportive in making sure the project became a reality,” Mr Bordotsiah said.
He said apart from the laboratory, management under his leadership, constructed a disease control unit to address the challenge of space and create privacy to attend to clients with peculiar disease conditions.
Mr Emmanuel Adongo, the Upper East Regional Biomedical Scientist, acknowledged the Mr Bordotsiah for ensuring quality healthcare delivery through the establishment of diagnostic laboratories in districts he headed while in active service.
He recalled how Mr Bordotsiah, as then Director of the Service in the Bongo District, spearheaded the establishment of laboratories at some Health Centres, and continued with same when he took over as Director for the Bolgatanga Municipality on June 30, 2022.
Mr Adongo mentioned the establishment of laboratories for the Coronation, Sherigu, Sokabisi, Nayariga and the Bolgatanga Health Centres for diagnostic services.
Madam Christiana Tibil, the Physician Assistant in charge of the Sumbrungu East Sub-Municipality, thanked the former Director for his initiative and appealed to other stakeholders to support the newly commissioned facility with basic medical and non-medical consumables to enable the facility operate optimally.
Clients at the facility who witnessed the ceremony, with visible smiles on their faces, told the Ghana News Agency that the laboratory would relief them of the stress they went through for laboratory investigations, and thanked leadership for the initiative.
Mr Bordotsiah has since taken over as Director of the GHS in the Bawku West District, owing to a reassignment letter dated August 4, 2025, and signed by Dr Braimah Baba Abubakari, the Regional Director of the Service.
Source: myghanadaily
