WA WEST ASSEMLY BUILDS CLASSROOMS (PAGE 22, AUGUST 10, 2010)

THE Wa West District Assembly in the Upper West Region has started constructing 10 six–unit classroom blocks in selected communities in the district.
The beneficiary communities include Boro, Lassia Tuolu and Wechiau.
Inspecting one of the projects at the Lassia–Tuolu Senior High School (SHS), the District Chief Executive, Mr Seidu Tungbani said the classroom blocks had become necessary in view of the large number of junior secondary school (JHS) graduates expected to be admitted in September, this year.
He said the government was committed to providing enough educational infrastructure in the country as a result of the four-year system introduced by the previous government.
Tungbani said it was in that vein that the government had embarked on a crash programme to address those imbalances.
He gave the assurance that electricity would be extended to the school to ensure effective teaching and learning.
In another development, an American non–governmental organisation (NGO), MEDPLUS, has presented assorted hospital equipment to the Wechiau Health Centre in the Wa West District.
The items included hospital beds, gloves and solar lights.
Making the presentation, the Executive Director of the NGO, Miss Emma Lawrence, said the organisation conducted visits to its partner hospitals and health centres to assess their needs after which they were supplied with what they actually needed.
She said the Lawra hospital recently also benefited from a similar donation, adding that MEDPLUS was partnering a Ghanaian NGO, EVCO–Africa, to instal a sever at the health centres.
Miss Lawrence said the NGO had extended its partnership with hospitals and health centres throughout the three northern regions.
For his part, the DCE, Mr Seidu Tingbani, thanked the NGO for the support and said it would go a long way to improve health care delivery at the health centre.