THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has presented eight motorbikes to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the three northern regions.
Two of the bikes were fixed with media cycles equipped with audio visual equipment such as public address systems, television sets, video decks, projectors and screens to enhance community health education.
The bikes are also meant to facilitate the effective delivery of health services to address the particularly high maternal deaths in communities in the beneficiary regions.
The Project Officer of the UNFPA in Tamale, Mr Tenii Mahama, who made the presentation, explained that the mandate of the organisation included the promotion of the rights of women, men and children to enjoy healthy life and equal opportunity.
“UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect,” he stated.
Mr Mahama further mentioned capacity-building programmes such as training of midwives and provision of safe motherhood equipment as some of the interventions earmarked for the health sector by his outfit, which he said were all geared towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal 5.
“Beneficiary districts will be selected on the bases of their high maternal mortality, difficult terrain within the districts and poor access to their regional directorates and referral facilities, among others,” Mr Mahama stated.
The Deputy Upper West Regional Director of the GHS, Dr Kofi Issah, who received the bikes on behalf of his colleagues, promised to use them to achieve the needed results in deprived communities in the regions.
He expressed appreciation to their benefactor for its support to the health sector over the years, stressing that it was through such laudable collaboration that effective health delivery services would be achieved.
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