Bole Health Centre In Crisis As Patients Resort To Open Defecation Amid Deteriorating Facilities
The Bole Health Centre, a facility that has served the Bole community in the Savannah Region for over 30 years, is now in a deplorable state, posing a serious health and safety risk to both patients and staff.
The centre’s clay roofing sheets are severely leaking, and its only two toilet facilities—one each for males and females—have become death traps.
This has forced patients to defecate in nearby bushes, raising fears of a looming public health crisis.
Hawa Ayembe, a patient at the facility, told Adom News that many patients now use the bush for fear of falling into the deteriorating toilet manholes. She appealed to the government to urgently construct new toilet facilities to restore dignity and safety at the centre.
When Adom News visited the health centre, both staff and patients were seen taking shelter under trees during a heavy storm. Workers revealed off record that they often abandon the centre when it rains, seeking refuge in a nearby school or returning home because the entire facility leaks badly.
The situation in the labour ward is equally dire. The facility has only one delivery bed, which is woefully inadequate as they often attend to up to five deliveries a day.
Health workers are calling on the Bole District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi—who also serves as the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Yussif Sulemana—to urgently intervene and help restore the facility to a functional and hygienic state.
Source: Adomonline
