

HEALTH SECTOR
Health
To ensure sustainable, equitable and easily accessible healthcare services in the district, there was a significant increase in the functionality of CHPS in the Municipality from 33.3% in 2019 to 67% as 12 new CHPS were established and were fully functional.
Doctor to population ratio improved from 1: 15957 in 2019 to 1: 12,467 in 2020, while nurse to population ratio also improved from 1: 343 to 1: 323 in 2020. Institutional maternal deaths however, increased from 2/100,000 to 6/100,000 in 2020. There was a marginal decrease in deaths attributed to malaria from 28% in 2019 to just 0.39% in 2020.


The Municipal Health Directorate intensified its surveillance system in all sub-districts, health facilities and communities on Coronavirus when the first case was reported in Ghana on the 12th of March, 2020.
All sub-district surveillance focal persons were trained and in-turn trained the staffs at facility to report any person returning from either Abroad or different districts within Ghana for assessment and screening.
The Municipality recorded its first case on the 14th April, 2020 and since then total number of cases recorded is 128 with 11 Active Cases, 110 Recovery/Discharge and 7 Deaths.
Date Created : 4/9/2025 3:09:59 AM