A few weeks ago our class learned that the Government of Ghana will post a midwife to the Health Center the Ghana Pericleans built in partnership with the people of Kpoeta, Ghana between April 2007 and January 2009. The midwife’s addition, in December 2013, will bring the Health Center’s full-time government-paid staff to four (two nurses, one staff member, and a midwife).
Health Center on Opening Day, Jan. 9, 2009
Ghana Pericleans and Nurses at Health Center, Jan. 2010
At the time of our 29 Founding Ghana Periclean Member’s graduation in May 2010, a basic Health Center was in place which the class had funded and the community and hired specialists (electricians, roofers, and plumbers) had built. By September 2011, Ghana’s Ministry of Health officially brought the facility into its network of Health Centers, which led to several benefits including: regular deliveries of basic medical supplies to the Health Center’s small dispensary and the ability of patients to use their National Health Insurance cards at the Health Center.
Ceremony for the Health Center’s Entry into the National System, Sept. 2011
Today, the Health Center Complex serves as the primary care facility for basic care for more than 10,000 people living in several small remote hamlets and villages in the vicinity of Kpoeta, which is located near the Ghana-Togo border. Thanks to the ongoing support of our Founding Members, 14 younger Ghana Periclean Scholars from the classes of 2012-16, and other supporters in the USA and Ghana, the Health Center serves an average of 125 people each week and forms one end of an L-shaped Health Center Complex of three buildings that were all built via a Ghana Periclean—Community of Kpoeta partnership. The other two buildings include a nurses’ housing block with two 2-bedroom apartments completed in late 2011 and a second housing block with two 1-bedroom apartments that is nearing completion.
First Nurses Houses Block, Jan. 2012
- Newest Housing Block Nearing Completion, Oct. 2013
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