THE General Manager (Newspapers) of the Graphic Communications Group limited, Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, has advised students of Health Assistant Training Schools to consider the course as an opportunity to help improve themselves and the health situation of people in their respective communities.
“It would be most unfortunate to regard the programme as a last resort and therefore an avenue for ready employment to make money,” he stated.
The general manager, therefore, urged them to focus their attention on their studies and also be guided by the principles of sacrifice and professional ethics in order to offer their best at their various duty stations upon completion.
Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh gave the advice during an interaction with students of the Yendi Health Assistants School at Yendi in his recent duty tour of the Northern Region. He gave the advice after the Yendi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani, had conducted him round some masters’ bungalows the Assembly had put up for the school.
The health school was established last year after an earlier one at Damongo in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region. The health aides are to complement the work of professional nurses at the various health centres in the region after their training.
Other projects Mr BuaduAyeboafoh inspected included a new abattoir and a library complex constructed by the assembly, with support from the European Union.
He was also taken round the Yendi Senior High School, where the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) sponsored the rehabilitation and construction of dormitories and dining hall blocks for the school.
Touching on the protracted chieftaincy dispute in the area, the general manager appealed to both factions in the chieftaincy divide to always resort to dialogue to arrive at a consensus to ensure the accelerated development of the municipality, which, he noted, had a lot of potential for growth.
For his part, the district chief executive commended the chiefs and people of the area for the prevailing peace, which had contributed significantly to the realisation of the various projects to the municipality.
Alhaji Tijani, however, observed that the continuous expenditure on security in the area following the existing stalemate in the Dagbon crisis, was hindering their efforts at accelerated growth.
He, therefore, appealed to them to exercise the greatest restraint, while efforts were being made to find a lasting solution to the problem.
Alhaji Tijani also expressed appreciation to the management and staff of Daily Graphic for its objective reportage of issues in the country.
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