Residents of Kubori in the Mamprugu Moaduru District of the North East Region have called on philanthropists and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) to support them complete a self-help healthcare facility.

The community-led by a group of young graduates, the Kubori Youth for Development took it upon themselves to build a new healthcare facility since the current Kubori Health Centre is debilitated and several calls on government have yielded no result.

Therefore, the residents raised over ¢200,000 and built a new facility with an intensive care unit, operation theatre and extensive diagnostic facility.

However, the dream of providing an accessible and quality healthcare service may not be realised since the people have run out of money to complete the project.

Speaking to Joy News’ Eliasu Tanko, a member of the Kubori Youth for Development, Seibu Mubarak indicated that the current healthcare centre in the town is mostly overwhelmed with cases.

This, he said, makes it difficult for healthcare providers to render quality service to patients.  

Narrating how the project started, Mr Mubarrak said, “We started it as communal labour, contributing ¢1 each.”

“But now we have run out of money so we want to appeal to government, NGO, philanthropist to help us so that we will be able to complete this building,” he added.

Mr Mubarak feared that should the self-help project remain uncompleted, unutilised and unequipped, residents of the community and its neighbouring towns will continue to suffer the inequitable healthcare service.

The Manager of the Kubori Health Centre, Emmanuel Wani on his part revealed that due to inadequate logistics the centre is sometimes forced to use the benches as beds for patients.

“We mostly improvise and use the space out there to render some services and that is not the best. Some of the procedures, requires that the client has some privacy but that cannot be the situation here,” he noted.

He then added his voice to that of the residents to call for support to complete the self-help healthcare centre they have already begun.

The Kubori Health centre has served as the treatment centre for 10,000 people for the past 30 years.

And it is also the major referral centre for primary healthcare for the farming community and its neighbouring communities.