Kofi Ampeah Woode
The Ghana Boundary Commission (GhBC) commissioned a rehabilitated health centre at Leklebi Kame, in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region, as part of efforts towards implementing social interventions in deprived border communities, aimed at strengthening cross-border cooperation and regional integration.
The facility, which was commissioned on 8 August 2024, was rehabilitated in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MoFARI), and financially supported by the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, to improve healthcare delivery in the area.
Mr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong – Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, in an address, thanked the ECOWAS Commission for their invaluable support towards improving the healthcare of the people of Leklebi-Kame, and said the facility would also serve the people of Kame-Tonou – a community in Togo that shares boundary with Leklebi-Kame – and other adjoining communities.
He lauded the GhBC for identifying the needs of the community and initiating the rehabilitation project, and commended the 48 Engineer Regiment of the Ghana Army, for their role in rehabilitating the health facility.
The Commissioner General of GhBC – Major General Emmanuel Wekem Kotia in his remarks, stated that the rehabilitated Leklebi-Kame Health Centre is the first completed project by the Commission, to be commissioned and handed over to a community.
He called on ECOWAS and other development partners to support the initiatives of GhBC, to improve the livelihoods of deprived border communities, and also urged the people of the community to ensure proper maintenance of the facility.
Other dignitaries present at the event were Mr Albert Siaw-Boateng – Director of Free Movement of the ECOWAS Commission; Mrs Jane Gasu-Aheto – Director of Legal Treaties Bureau, MoFARI; Mrs Hilaria Mabel Dey – Director of Regional Integration, MoFARI; Mr Etornam Flolu – District Chief Executive of Afadjato South District; and Togbe Atachie V – Paramount Chief of Leklebi-Kame.
Credit: GhBC PR
