The Story of Kordjour Village
Thank you, EcoWater, for matching funds to build the Kordjour Village clinic. With your amazing help, we have built the clinic and installed a well so the clinic will have clean water. We hope to expand the project with a water tower so we can share clean water with the village.
Korjour is way up in the mountains on a series of dirt rounds. It is hard to get building materials up here.
Kordjour Village serves a wide area, far away from the nearest hospital. This is the market district, and it is much busier on market day, which is once a week.
This is part of the residential area. Most people cannot afford to plaster their houses.
Kordjour Community Leaders who donated the land.
Donation of land.
By carrying water up the hill to Kordjour. (He turned around to greet us.)
Ghana Health Services reviewing our government accreditation with Kordjour’s nurse.
First Day of Clinic! We are so glad this expectant mother will have prenatal care and a safe place to give birth.
Patients in the waiting room.
Kordjour is one of the main communities in the Aowin district and its modest clinic was the oldest in the region. It is currently on the premises of an aged woman who has been given notice of eviction. Over three years now, the owner of the house and her family have persistently told us to vacate the premises. The Directorate has pleaded to keep the space until a new clinic can be built in its place. There has been several confrontations with the landlady and her family earlier this year and both the staff and patients are hesitant to attend the clinic.
The situation is heart breaking and service has deteriorated. There is no privacy for patients, especially pregnant women. There is no space to allow adequate midwifery services such as Labour, ANC and PNC. The staff works in constant fear of ejection by land lady. Infection prevention procedures cannot be adequately practiced. Pressure from lady's family on her to eject the nurses has detrimental impact on the health of the patients.
The most saddened ones are the pregnant women who now stay at home instead of attending prenatal care and even delivery. The road network along the Kordjour and Enchi (district capital stretch) is very very terrible - some motor bikes and one Kia truck runs every Wednesday. Patients prefer to stay at home and meet their fate than to struggle on that road, especially during pregnancy and labor. We have been hoping that an intervention comes in the course of the year so the clinic is not closed down. Also, there is no potable drinking water in the community and its surrounding communities. The community leaders are always at the Directorate to find out if any help is available. The joy of the people within Kordjour and its eight surrounding communities will have no bound should Yonkofa Project come to our aid.
From Rita A. Owusu, District Director of Health Services, Aowin District, Ghana
Construction begins.
Running electrical to the clinic.