Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Abu Kabiebata Kansangbata has stated that the concept of the Community based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been identified as a much reliable tool to achieving the Millennium Development goal (MDG 4&5). He added the goal of the Sisaala East District is to ensure that no woman dies out of child birth or a child losing his life before his fifth birthday which is a result of the strict implementation of pragmatic and cost effective interventions captured in the MDG 4&5. Mr. Kansangbata who doubles as the District Chief Executive for the Sissala East district made the statement at the launching of a Community based Health Planning and Services at Wuru in the Sissala East district. The Community based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) is a health care concept adopted by the Ghana Health Service and its developing partners to make primary health care accessible to all. The operation of CHPS brings health care closer to its clients. The workers and community members are actively engaged as partners in the delivery of Primary Health Care (PHC) and Family Planning services. It involves community participation in Primary Health Care and Family Planning Services delivery through Community Health Committees and Community Health Volunteers in a community Health Compound. Mr. Kansangabata said the CHPS concept has broadened the scope of health care services to the rural poor. He noted that achieving MDG 4 and 5 through CHPs could not have come at a better time than now when the whole world is striving seriously to reduce child mortality rate and also improve maternal health by the year 2015. The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister said the Assembly will therefore continue to provide the necessary support to the Ghana Health Service so as to ensure that goals 4 and 5 of the MDGs are achieved by the year 2015. He lauded the knowledge and intervention of the country’s donor partners especially UNICEF and JICA who are working tirelessly through their financial and logistical support to get the people out of the woods. However, he was not enthused with the non operations of some of the already completed CHPS compounds. ‘‘Out of the total of 21 earmarked CHPS zones in the districts, ten (10) compounds have been completed. Seven of them currently have resident Community Health Officers (CHOs) and are operational. This is clear that, many of our people are still living far away from accessing basic health care services. Having tasked ourselves to reduce poverty and also meet our Millennium Development Goals, more especially, goals 4 and 5, by 2015, we need to redirect ourselves to the noble course of hard work in order to justify the investment in the sector by the government,’’ he added. He commended the chiefs and people of the district for their unflinching support for the CHPS programme through the mobilization and sensitization of their various communities.