The MP and Minister designate was also jointly assisted by Nana Kojo Ackom, Tufuhene of Agona Swedruman Council of Chiefs and Chief of Swedru Dwenho to cut the sod for the construction of additional gate for the hospital instead of using gate.

Addressing the gathering, Mrs Morrison said the donation of ambulance and other equipment to the facility was to assist and also reduce no bed syndrome in some of the Ghanaian hospital.   She said the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration had proposed to give each district an ambulance to improve quality delivery system.

The MP disclosed that already, CHPs compounds and health centres in the Agona West have received the equipment to help nurses and Medical Assistants to management such health facilities better. She said nurses and other paramedical staff have been tasked to register the aged in the Agona Swedru starting from Swedru Ankyease to give them medical treatment.

The Minister Designate said the aged would not only be given medical treatment, but would also be fed and entertained since loneliness could easily kill.    The MP stated that some of these aged have been abandoned by the relatives due to stigmatisation and the fact that they have been branded as witches and wizards because of the age.

She therefore charged the community Health nurses and other medical staff in the Agona West to embark on house to house exercise to educate girl-child especially about the dangers of teenage pregnancy cases.   Dr Apetogbor Dzedzegbe, Medical Superintendent of Agona Swedru Municipal Government Hospital said the Swedru hospital started as health centre but due to population progression, it could not absorb the patients.

He said there are enough beds and other equipment are available at the hospital but lacked of space for expansion works to be carried out has become a major problem. Dr Dzedzegbe thanked the MP and Minister designate for Gender for her kind gesture and promised to keep the ambulance and other equipment to serve the purposes, which were brought for the benefit of the patients.

He called on the corporate bodies, financial institutions, philanthropist, well to do Agona citizens, NGOs and others to come to the aid of the hospital. Dr Dzedzegbe called on the Agona West Municipal, MP, and Central government to construct medical village to accommodate health staffs to protect life and property.