By Simon Gali
Kpanamuuna, (UW/R), March 03, GNA – The residents of Kpanamuuna in the Wa East District have appealed to the government to rehabilitate the road linking the community to market and health centres in other communities, especially Wa.
They said the current deplorable state of the roads in the area was affecting their economic activities, such as farming, access to healthcare and education, especially during the rainy season.
Naa Mwamkuli Kumbampon Mahama, an opinion leader at Kpanamuuna, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at the community that although the community faced many challenges, the poor condition of the road remained their major concern.
“The road situation gets worse during the rainy season. People from this community are not able to move to other communities during the rainy season”, Naa Mahama noted.
He explained that farmers were compelled to sell their produce at low prices due to the poor road network, which also had a toll on their economic fortune since they were predominantly farmers.
He added that the bad state of the roads in the area had impeded their timely access to healthcare services, leading to preventable deaths.
Naa Mahama indicated that community members mobilised and constructed a health facility to reduce the drudgery they experienced in accessing healthcare services in other communities, but that the facility lacked essential supplies, especially medicines.
He therefore appealed to the Wa East District Health Directorate to provide the necessary consumables and health personnel to the facility to improve service delivery.
Ms Rashida Ahmadu, a resident, lamented that during the rainy season, they were unable to cart their farm produce to the market because vehicles were unable to access the community.
Ms Ahmadu added that the health facility lacked medicines and sometimes referred patients to Wa, Busa or Kpaglahi to purchase drugs, a situation that delayed treatment.
She noted that some teachers also refused postings to that community due to the bad state of the road.
Mr Peter Sortro Mwinisiir, the Assembly Member for the area, observed that though political leaders were aware of the challenges, little had been done to address them.
He expressed worry that several promises made by politicians during electioneering had not been fulfilled, which had left rural communities such as Kpanamuuna in a myriad of challenges.
GNA
Edited by Caesar Abagali/Linda Asante Agyei
