World Vision Ghana, Somoco Ghana partner to improve healthcare access in Agortime
Residents in hard-to-reach communities in Agortime in the Oti Region are expected to have improved access to healthcare, as mobile health services are rolled out to communities where distance and poor roads often make it difficult to reach health facilities.
Residents in remote communities of Agortime, located in Ghana's Oti Region, are set to experience enhanced healthcare access due to the introduction of mobile health services. Two specially equipped tricycles have been transferred to the Ghana Health Service, enabling community health workers to extend essential healthcare services to residents through CHPS compounds.
This initiative is a collaborative effort between World Vision Ghana and Somoco Ghana Limited, with a Memorandum of Understanding governing their partnership.
The tricycles will facilitate the transportation of vital medicines, maternal health supplies, vaccines, and diagnostic equipment, catering to antenatal and postnatal care, immunization, basic diagnostics, and referrals. Current reports indicate that some residents in remote areas are required to travel over 10 kilometers to access healthcare, with poor roads and challenging terrain further impeding their ability to reach health facilities.
Awurabena Quayeba Dadzie, World Vision Ghana's Health Technical Specialist, emphasizes that this partnership aims to address last-mile barriers to healthcare, particularly for pregnant women, newborns, and children. By bolstering the mobility of community health workers, the initiative seeks to ensure consistent service delivery to communities that may otherwise be challenging to serve effectively.
Theophilous Lampey, Business Support Manager of Somoco Ghana Limited, highlights the initiative's potential to alleviate the obstacles posed by distance and difficult terrain for frontline health workers. He expresses pride in partnering with World Vision Ghana and the Ghana Health Service to provide practical and reliable mobility to these healthcare professionals, enabling them to serve more families and overcome physical barriers presented by distance and terrain.
The partnership aligns with World Vision Ghana's five-year strategy, "Hope for Every Child: Harnessing Opportunities for the Protection and Empowerment of Every Child" (HOPE, 2026-2030), which concentrates on enhancing child well-being through interventions in health, education, protection, and participation. The organization's Business Development, Partnerships, and External Engagement Director, Joseph Appiah, asserts that the intervention aims to eliminate distance as a hindrance between families and essential healthcare services.
He adds that the initiative seeks to strengthen outreach services and improve ties between community health workers and households in underserved communities.
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