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Inadequate infrastructure negatively impacts healthcare delivery at St George’s Clinic

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Lack of adequate infrastructure and equipment at the St George’s Clinic at Liati in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region is negatively affecting quality healthcare delivery to the people living in its catchment area.

The Clinic which is the only major health facility in the district is currently under stress due to demand on its inadequate healthcare facilities and services. Management is therefore appealing to government and benevolent organisations to provide support to enable it overcome the facility’s infrastructure and equipment challenges.

St George’s Clinic at Liati in the Afadjato District of the Volta Region was established in 1983 by the Comboni Missionaries of the Catholic Church from Spain to provide healthcare delivery to the people of Liati and its environs.

The facility has since not seen any significant infrastructural development despite currently being the only major facility in the Afadjato South District for referrals and providing healthcare for over 50 thousand residents in its catchment area.

The clinic has no maternity block which according to management has been a major challenge.  It has only one room and a 30-year-old rusty delivery bed serving as maternity unit posing risk and lack of privacy for pregnant women and their babies.

The clinic lacks delivery beds, patient beds, modern laboratory equipment among others for service delivery.

Most of its laboratory equipment are obsolete after several years of use. It also lacks accommodation for its medical and ancillary staff who commute from long distances to work. An accommodation block that started several years ago has stalled due to lack of funds.

The Administrator at the Clinic, Helen Addae, says limited financial base has made it difficult for management to embark on expansion of its infrastructure and acquiring modern equipment for the laboratory and other units. She, therefore, appealed to government and benevolent organisation to come to their aid to enable management enhance its service delivery.

At the celebration of this year’s World Day of the Sick by the Ho Catholic Diocese at Liati, the Director of Ho Diocesan Health Service,  Emmanuel Hanson Torde, gave the assurance that his outfit will not relent on its efforts to provide quality healthcare services to the people of the Volta Region and beyond.

He appealed to the Ghana Health Service to elevate the St George’s Clinic to the status of a polyclinic. The Catholic Bishop of Ho, Most Rev Emmanuel Fianu urged Ghanaians to support and pray for the sick and healthcare workers especially in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Elorm Yao Aryee.

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