People who live in Teshie, in the Ledzokuku constituency, are angry that the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound has been abandoned.
One of the residents claims that an organization unrelated to the health industry once occupied the CHPS complex.
In an interview with JoyNews, he said that the unaffiliated organization had left and that CHPS was planning to start using the facility again.
“We heard the Member of Parliament coming to commission the place. Frankly speaking as a resident, I was very happy. So we started asking ourselves if a CHPS compound is going to be commissioned meaning it should be operationalized, everything is coming to happen, nurses are coming, materials are coming up, nurses are coming, doctors are coming. Everything is going to be added up for it to be commissioned,” he said.
On the day the compound was scheduled to open formally, he said that the local assembly was confused and frustrated since the contractors had not given the project an official handover.
Another neighbor was upset because a local person, not the assemblyman, had the keys to the CHPS compound.
“How does he obtain the key? This is anarchy. Here, he’s not the assemblyman. You observe the chaos,” he declared on February 22, 2024.
Eric Odonkor, a former member of the Ledzokuku Assembly, claims that he was unaware of the circumstances within the CHPS complex.
“Last time, I heard there was chaos here about commissioning. I was the assembly member because the current assembly member was not sworn in so if anything they should have contacted me, they should have called me because I am a member of the area for me to also have an idea of what is going on but nothing of that sort.
“As we speak now, I’m in black, I am going to the mortuary and I was called upon. I needed flash here to see what is going on,” he said.
