Lordina Mahama, wife of John Mahama, the NDC flagbearer, has commissioned a newly built health centre at Hohoe Adabraka in the Volta Region to improve healthcare delivery.

The fully furnished facility was financed by the Lordina Foundation, which also renovated the old facility and refurbished its maternity ward with equipment.

The new facility has consulting rooms, a store, wards, washrooms and a laboratory.

Mrs Mahama said a request was made to provide health equipment to the existing facility, but the Foundation decided that a new one be constructed to expand access to healthcare to benefit everyone in the communities.

She said every citizen deserved quality healthcare no matter where they found themselves.

The facility would serve as a place of healing as well as hope, empowerment and demonstration of Mr Mahama’s love for Ghanaians and the people of Hohoe, she said at the commissioning.

Under the next Mahama administration, healthcare delivery would be improved with the 24-Hour Economy in force, as well as other programmes aimed at improving standards of living, she said.

Mrs Mahama said the facility would ensure that maternal healthcare was improved significantly with expanded access to essential services and urged the constituents to vote for Mr Mahama as the next president and Mr Thomas Worlanyo Tsekpo as the next Hohoe Constituency Member of Parliament.

Mr Tsekpo, the NDC parliamentary candidate, said the facility was a great transformation, which would have been impossible if not for the tremendous support of the former first lady and the Lordina Foundation.

He said the Foundation’s support in the health sector was commendable and that the facility would support the constituents in receiving better healthcare services.

If voted for, he would upgrade the Hohoe Adabraka Health Centre to a municipal state, he noted, and that the electorate should vote for Mr Mahama and him to ensure the development of the constituency.

Pastor Kwame Boateng-Sarpong, Member of, Lordina Foundation Board, said the Foundation was steadfast in its mission to ensure the life of every woman, man, and child, especially in underserved communities, was enhanced through better healthcare, education and general well-being.

He said healthcare was a shared responsibility and called on all to take good care of themselves, eat well and drink good water.

Pastor Boateng-Sarpong called on the people to maintain and utilise the facility to its full capacity and ensure that generations yet-to-be-born benefitted from it.

Mr Charles Azagba, the Hohoe Municipal Director of Health Services, said the facility had come at the right time to enable the Directorate to increase access to healthcare and reduce the pressure on the Regional Hospital.

He said the facility would solve the infrastructure and equipment deficit, adding that they would improve the skills of health workers to deliver on their mandate.

Mr Azagba said apart from the Regional Hospital, the Centre recorded the highest number of Out-Patient Department (OPD) attendance; monthly OPD attendance was 600, Antenatal care (ANC) stood at 300, and 30 deliveries.

He urged the community to fully utilise the facility and take good care of it to serve the intended purpose.

Togbe Kromponi IV of Gbi Kpeme-Daklovi commended Mrs Mahama, her spouse and the Foundation for the gesture, which would go a long way to addressing the health needs of the people.