It is an outlandish community with no infrastructural facility to better the lives of the residents. Residents especially pregnant women have to cross rivers to have either antenatal care or deliver when in labour.

They risk bumpy motorbikes ride sometimes falling off further worsening their condition. Those who cannot make it on the motorbikes have to be attended to by traditional birth attendants. Most of them ended up having complications.

That is the story of the people of Sangbaka located in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region. 

Sangbaka is located about 28 kilometers from the Sissala West district capital, Gbollu with a population of a little over 450. They neither have electricity nor any tarred road linking them to other community. 

During the rainy season, residents in this community are often cut off from other communities in the area. They have no health facility to cater for their health needs when they are sick. Pregnant women depend on traditional birth attendants for delivery, a situation they describe as dangerous for them to bear.

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