SOCIAL STORIES

Kintampo College of Health appeals for transport

The College of Health and Well-Being – Kintampo (CoH-K) in the Kintampo North Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo Region, is constrained due to the inadequate means of transport to execute its mandate for the people.

The Dean of the College of Health and Coordinator for International Seminar and Community Work, Mr. Francis Owusu Boateng disclosed to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Kurawura in the Municipality.

He said the college was established, “to provide health education, training and service. But its major challenge is the resources and logistics like vehicles and motor-bikes to put theory into practice.”

Mr. Boateng led a team made up of some selected staff and students in collaboration with a 64-member team from the School of Medicine, University of Utah, and Salt Lake City in the United States of America to provide free medical outreach services to the people of Kurawura, a farming community and its environs.

He noted that the college had more than 1,670 students with only two buses for fieldwork and administrative duties saying as a health training institution, students could not be trained without emphasis on the practical aspects of their respective courses.

Mr. Boateng said this had necessitated structured and regular field trips as course components to ensure best and quality training was offered to the students, but management’s efforts were being hindered because of the inadequate means of transport.

He said the college had the human resource capacity to reach out to the people within its catchment area for school health education programmes like de-worming, oral health and growth monitoring.

“But the mobility challenge is hindering the maximum utilization of that potential,” he said.

Mr. Boateng appealed to corporate organizations and stakeholders interested in the development of education and health to the assist the College with mobile vans and other means of transport to reach other deprived and under-served communities.