Access to clean and potable water has become a headache for the people of Nkyenkyemen, a farming community in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region.
Residents of Nkyenkyemen are therefore pleading with government to come to their aid and provide them with water which is needed desperately especially by the only health facility in the area.
According to residents, patients including pregnant women are compelled to carry water to the health facility in the area due to the unavailability of water in the community.
This, they say, is impeding effective health delivery.
Sharing her ordeal, Madam Yaa Nketia, a resident of the community stated that, “there is no source of water at the facility so when you deliver here you have to go round looking for water which is not good. So we are appealing to the authorities to fix the situation for us.â€
The midwives of the health facility also described the situation as worrying.
“The situation at our health facility is not encouraging at all because we do not have a source of water at the facility. The situation is so serious that pregnant women have to bring water when they come and deliver which is not good for their health and that of their unborn baby.”
Source: The Independent Ghana