The new classroom block
The Wassa Amenfi East Municipal
Assembly in the Western Region has commissioned three projects which would help
boost service delivery by the beneficiary institutions to the people.
The projects included a maternity
block with various components, a three-unit classroom block with ancillary
facilities at Ntowkrom and a rehabilitated six-unit classroom block at
Abreshia, all in the municipality.
The maternity block was funded by the
District Development Facility at a cost of GH¢410, 410.35 while the newly
constructed three classroom block with ancillary facilities was funded with
proceeds from the District Assembly Common Fund at a cost of GH¢232,
111.64.
The Abreshia Primary School was also
rehabilitated with the assembly’s Internally Generated Funds at a cost GH¢179,
344.20
The Municipal Chief Executive, Helena
Appiah indicated that health and education were critical areas for
socioeconomic development.
She pointed out that the Assembly
would in line with government policies continue to provide accessible and
equitable healthcare and education for all in the municipality.
She noted that the newly constructed
maternity block for the Municipal Government Hospital would solve the challenge
of inadequate space for mothers who visited the health facility to seek
healthcare.
She also noted that the various
components of the facility, such as the dispensary, delivery room and staff
offices among others would provide the congenial atmosphere for the hospital
staff to attend to their clients on time.
The MCE pointed out that the
continuous increase in the enrollment in schools had placed a greater
responsibility on the assembly to deliver the needed infrastructure at the
basic level to prepare the pupils adequately to take advantage of the
government’s free education policy.
In that regard, the assembly would
intensify efforts to get teachers to fill the vacancies in all the schools in
the municipality.
This, according to her, would facilitate
teaching and learning to meet the set educational standards especially with the
planned roll out of the new educational curriculum in the next
academic term.
She urged the user agencies to take
good care of the facilities and cautioned the school authorities not to allow
school facilities to be used for unintended purposes such as church
services.
She assured the people of Ntowkrom
that their roads would be fixed and electricity and internet facilities
extended to the community, to enable them link up with the rest of the
communities in the municipality and beyond.
The Municipal Director of Education, Mr. Edmund Aggrey-Forson pledged to monitor the teachers to ensure that the educational facilities were put to good use and also ensure that teachers posted to the municipality were sent to schools without teachers.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi
