Nowhere to give birth – The inhabitants of Bonkrom are clamoring for help

Regional News from Friday, February 8, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-02-08

The people of Bonkrom, a farming community in Ahafo Ano South West district, are asking the government to build a health facility for the community.

There is no single health post in the community, so pregnant women have no choice but to rely on the traditional birth attendant to give birth to their baby.

The nearest health center is a health center located in Asibey Nkwanta, about four kilometers from Bonkrom. Residents must travel on foot, as motorists can not use the road on a regular basis due to its terrible nature.

Nana K. Anane, the city's Odikro, appealed to the district badembly to build at least one community-based health planning and service complex in the community. to meet the health needs of the population.

He added that even access to communications was very difficult, because one had to climb a hill or be in a certain place before being able to access a network to call for help in case of emergency. emergency.

There is practically nothing in Bonkrom that would attract a person from another city to live there

With the exception of Fridays, which are the market day for the next big city, Kunsu, he said the vehicles were barely seen in the area.

More often than not, one had to pray for a motorbike to bring somebody from Kunsu into the community, then board or make the 12-kilometer walk to get to Kunsu.

Isolated community

The community could be described as a cottage of about 500 inhabitants and almost everyone knows everyone.

Around the village, plantations of plantain and cocoa are interbedded with cocoyam and other food crops.

Most houses in the community are muddy, with the exception of churches and schools built with cement blocks.

Due to the isolated nature of the community and the distance to the main road, people practically eat what they grow because commercial vehicles arrive in the community only on Fridays. of the Kunsu market.

Unattractive condition

There is virtually nothing in the city that drives the people of a nearby city to want to live there.

There are only two solar panel streetlights to light up the city at night and residents rely on battery-powered electric gadgets to stay in step with the rest of the world.

The city also has two boreholes that meet the water needs of the inhabitants.

According to Bonkrom DA Primary Director, Mr. Kwame Yeboah, the school had only six teachers, including one from the NABCO for the eight clbadrooms.

He added that to remedy the shortage, some clbades had been combined.

For example, he said, the kindergarten section was badigned to one teacher, in the same way as clbades one and two and clbades three and four.

With the exception of Fridays, which are a market day, vehicles are barely seen in the region

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However, he hoped that more teachers would be badigned to the school as the city would soon have a JHS after donating a block of three clbadrooms to the community through the school. 39; International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as part of its project to protect the child in cocoa communities in the country.

ICI ISan International is a non-governmental organization working to improve the lives of children in cocoa growing communities by supporting the acceleration and development of child-centered community development and responsible management. supply chain in the cocoa sector.

It aims to protect the rights of the child and contribute to the elimination of child labor through the innovation, development, application and promotion of good practices and creating partnerships.