ASA Savings and Loans Limited has renovated the Nayagnia Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality as part of efforts to improve healthcare delivery and support the wellbeing of residents.
The financial institution also donated a range of medical equipment and consumables to the facility to strengthen healthcare services, particularly maternal and child healthcare.
The items included an infrared thermometer, blood pressure monitor, glucometer, Seca weighing scale, steriliser drum, surgical gloves, cotton wool, gauze, nose masks, infusion sets and liquid soap, among other supplies.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Mr Abdulai Abrahaman, Navrongo Area Manager of ASA Savings and Loans, said the intervention reflected the company’s commitment to contributing to the socio-economic development of communities where it operates.
He said although ASA Savings and Loans had only recently begun operations in the Navrongo area, the company considered it important to support the wellbeing of residents.
“When you are in a particular community, you need to appreciate the community as well. This is the first of this kind we are doing here, and it will not be the last,” he said.
Mr Abrahaman explained that the intervention was not determined by the number of customers the company had in the area but by its desire to contribute to the welfare of the wider community.
He disclosed that ASA Savings and Loans, which has operated in Ghana since 2008, currently has 168 offices across all 16 regions.
According to him, the company also intends to extend its community development support to the Nayagnia R/C Primary School.
“When ASA grows, the community also benefits. If our expansion grows, our helping hands will also become bigger,” he added.
Mr Timothy Abavana, Nurse-in-Charge of the Nayagnia CHPS Compound, said the renovation had transformed the appearance of the facility and could improve patients’ experience.
He explained that the poor condition of the building had previously made the facility unattractive to patients.
“Previously, the facility itself was just an eyesore. It wasn’t pleasant to our patients, but right now you can see it is pleasing to the eye,” he said.
Mr Abavana said the medical equipment and consumables would also enable health personnel to provide improved services and strengthen maternal and general healthcare delivery.
Mr Stephen Akugri, an official of the Kassena-Nankana Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Health Service, described the intervention as timely, saying it had addressed an immediate need at the facility.
He said authorities had previously been considering how to raise funds to paint the CHPS compound before ASA Savings and Loans intervened.
“I want to thank ASA so much for touching the lives of not only Nayagnia but other communities nearby,” he said.
Mr Akugri assured the company that the donated items would be used for their intended purposes to benefit patients and residents of surrounding communities.
For the Nayagnia community, the intervention also brought relief to a long-standing infrastructure challenge.
Mr Cornelius Kwogana Abaduri, an Elder of the Nayagnia Chief, said the community’s development committee had already estimated the cost of renovating the facility but had struggled to mobilise the required funds.
“We were thinking about how to get the money to fix it, but by the grace of God, ASA has come to solve this problem for us,” he said.
