HATS TO BE BUILT IN GUSHIEGU DISTRICT

The Gushegu District of the Northern Region will soon get its own Health Assistants Training School to train health personnel to assist in the delivery of quality healthcare services.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Gushegu, Alhassan Fuseini told savannahnews that plans were far advanced by the government through the Ministry of Health to build a multi-million cedi Health Assistants School in the District.

According to him, the Ministry of Health had approved March 2011 for work to commence on the Gushegu District Health Assistance School project.

He disclosed that the Health Centres in the District especially the Goshegu Government Hospital depended mostly on the Health Extension Workers under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and even with that the facilities were still lacking staff.

The DCE said land and funding for the project had already been secured and assured government of the support of the Chiefs and people in the district for the school to come into existence.

However, Hon Fuseini who gave an account of government’s development interventions in the district over the past two years, which included the construction of a two storey hostel projects for the Gushegu Senior High School. Others include three No 6-units classroom block each with ancillary facilities for the Gungoligu, Sakogu and Kanimo communities in the Gushegu District.

This according to the Gushegu DCE will bring to about 15 the number of new school projects the Ministry of education had so far executed in the district since President John Evans Atta Mills’ led NDC administration assumed office in 2009.

He said the high premium placed on the expansion of educational infrastructure in the Gushegu District clearly demonstrated Hon. Alex Tetteh Enyo, the Minister of Education’s pledge to eliminate the worrying situation of schools under trees in deprived communities.

At the moment, the assembly had acquired a new grader with registration number GR215 10 to improve the road network in the district. He was optimistic that the socio-economic development of residents living in underserved farming communities of the district will also improve when the road network was expanded to link the Gushegu District to other parts of the northern region.