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A/R: MIDWIVES FORCED TO USE TORCH LIGHTS FOR DELIVERIES AT CHIP COMPOUNDS

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More than 5000 occupants living in Pokuase, Amoako and Esienkyem people group in the Ahafo Ano East District in the Ashanti Region are without power or backup generator compelling medical caretakers and maternity specialists to convey pregnant ladies utilizing light lights from their cell phones at different CHIP compounds.

 

Inhabitants from the three networks who are associated with any type of power since creation, said maternity specialists and wellbeing authorities utilizing lights from their cell phones and light lights as an essential wellspring of brightness was the same old thing to them.

 

A few ladies in the space who imparted their encounters to this columnist on Monday, July 11, 2022, said they were consistently in dread when their time are expected for conveyance.

 

"The Midwives in some cases use telephones and we are compelled to buy the batteries for the spotlights assuming things deteriorate.

 

"The circumstance has put maternal medical care in the towns on the edge as ladies who are expected conveyance in the following month are fearful over the turn of events," a concerned occupant said.

 

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Assemblyman's call for help

 

The Assembly individual from Pokuase-Amoako Electoral Area, Hon Alfred Owusu said the networks were associated with the public lattice after government left on a provincial charge project nearby.

 

He made sense of that the Electricity Company of Ghana detached them from the National framework scarcely fourteen days after they were first associated with power.

 

"I needed to follow up to the District Assembly to figure out why we were separated from the public lattice very quickly in the wake of associating us

 

"Shockingly our District Chief leader said the three networks can utilize the power framework after true dispatching by the public authority.

 

"Furthermore, it has taken the public authority over a half year to authoritatively surrender the task to the networks; the circumstance is without a doubt creating many issues for our kin," he underscored.

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