Graphic Online
BY: Emmanuel Modey
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The Upper West Regional Referral Hospital in Wa has been operating at suboptimal capacity following a number of challenges facing the facility, including inadequate capital to purchase consumables.
There is also lack of medical professionals such as doctors and nurses, including vehicles, accommodation and the inability of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to reimburse the facility.
The Medical Director of the hospital,Dr Robert Amesiya, was speaking to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Wa last Wednesday.
The hospital began functioning on January 9,2020.
The $52-million hospital with state-of-the-art facilities was inaugurated onAugust18,2019 by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and later handed over to the Ghana Health Service after testing and commissioning of equipment.
FDA organises training for pre-packaged food, sachet water producer
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has organised a training programme for pre-packaged food and sachet water producers in the Upper West Region on regulations regarding food manufacturing such as record keeping and personal and environmental hygiene. The 85 participants from 58 pre-packaged food and sachet water campanies from the Wa, Jirapa, Nandom and Lawra Municipalities, Lambussie, Nadowli and Daffiama-Bussie-Issa Districts were encouraged to ensure proper documentation and records keeping at the companies. The FDA was to also organise a similar programme for producers in the Sissala enclave. Mr Albert Ankomah, the Upper West Regional Head of the FDA, addressing participants at the training in Wa, noted that the training was necessitated by the non-compliance among some producers in the Region, which the FDA observed during its monitoring activities.