Nurses at the Sung Health Centre in the Karaga District of the Northern Region are forced to use mobile phone torchlight to deliver pregnant women due to lack of electricity in the facility.
According to the health personnel, they rely on the lights from their mobile phones to administer healthcare to patients because the facility has been disconnected from the national grid.
They claimed that a team from NEDCo led by Stephen Mensah visited the facility some months ago and disconnected the facility, because the health authorities had failed to inform them before tapping the lights into the facility.
The Nurse -in-charge of the facility, Abdul Rauf, said the situation is affecting quality healthcare delivery at the facility since the issue has gotten to their superiors but not much had been heard from them.
“Our main problem here is lightening,” he said, indicating that “we have to use our phone light for delivery, because there is no electric power in this facility. Our refrigerator and other drugs have been moved into some other building because we don’t have electricity and that is very bad and unacceptable in the health profession,” he lamented.
The Sung health center has only two Nurses managing the facility. A midwife at the facility who only gave her name as Merri, told Diamond News how she is forced to deliver pregnant women in their homes.
Meanwhile Diamond News reached out to Stephen Mensah who led the team to disconnect the power at the facility, but he claimed he is on leave and cannot comment on the issue.
Source:Alhassan Yakubu | www.Diamondfmonline.com |Ghana
