Health

The health facilities in the district include hospitals, Poly Clinic, Clinics, Health Centres, CHPS Compounds and Maternity Homes. The Ankaase Methodist Faith Healing Hospital is the Afigya Kwabre District Hospital and is located at Ankaase. Travel time from Kodie the district capital to Ankaase District Hospital takes about 30 minutes. The health facilities in the District are being complimented by facilities in neighboring Districts, such as the St. Patrick?s Hospital at Offinso (7km from the District Capital) and Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi (16km from the District Capital). Again, the accessibility is being facilitated by the relatively good road network linking the two facilities.


The number of Health Facilities in the district has increased from 15 facilities in 2017 to 23 in 2021, and this has helped to cater for the growing health needs of the district population. Nonetheless, there is still much ground to cover.


Common Diseases in the District Malaria has over the years been the leading cause of cases reported each year at the health facilities. Looking at the three-year trend, with respect to increasing population; the period under review also saw malaria as first cause of outpatient disease. Hence, strategies like distribution of mosquito nets, spraying of mosquito bleeding places and environmental cleanliness should be promoted to reduce malaria prevalence in the district.

HIV/AIDS The issue of HIV and AIDS is of much importance to all nations in the world. For that matter, the district has made a lot of progress in putting measures in place to fight HIV/AIDS. These include?

• Regular meetings with stake holders in the fight of HIV in the district.
• Monitoring of PMTCT sites through the District Response Management Team
• Occasional assistance to PLHIV who are in dire need financially to go for their medication The number of pregnant women testing for HIV at the ANC has been increasing since 2014.

The same can be said about mothers who test positive. This means that HIV and AIDS education, counseling and support should be intensified in the district to check the spread of the menace and reduce HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in Ashanti Region and the nation as a whole.

Accessibility to health facilities

Health facilities were identified in eleven Communities in the district. These are Afrancho, Kodie, Brofoyedru, Adwumakasekese, Aboabogya, Mpobi, Apagya, Ankaase, Kyirase, Atimatim and Mowire. The analysis revealed that accessibility to Hospital and Health Centers in the district is very high as shown in Figure below. Health facilities in the District are fairly distributed which makes it easily accessible by majority of the populace.