Deputy Director for Public Health in the Ahafo Region, Dr. Bernard Ziem has commended the Asutifi North District Health Directorate for its achievement of zero maternal deaths in 2023.
Dr. Ziem praised the managers of the Directorate for providing intensive in-service training to midwives and ensuring that they implemented what they had learned to prevent maternal deaths, which had been a prevalent issue.
In an interview with Adom News, Dr. Bernard Ziem, the Ahafo Regional Deputy Director for Public Health, emphasized that despite previous challenges in recording maternal deaths, the District’s managers successfully averted any such cases in 2023 through additional measures.
Dr. Ziem, who is currently serving as the Acting Asutifi North District Health Director as well, also highlighted that in 2023, the District accomplished the commendable feat of not recording any deaths related to malaria among children under the age of five.
“Throughout the year, no maternal mortality was observed in this district, which is a significant achievement. I commend the midwives we sent to chief zones and all health workers for their contributions that brought us to this point,” he emphasized.
“In 2023, Asutifi North District had no deaths related to malaria among children under five. This is a significant contribution to our national strategy for malaria elimination in Ghana,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Asutifi North District Coordinating Director Samuel Badu Baiden, expressed the District Assembly’s satisfaction with the positive and encouraging results in the Directorate’s 2023 performance.
He used the opportunity to call on all stakeholders in the District to support health workers in their efforts to improve the health status of residents.
“We gave them our purpose, and they achieved some but not all due to the challenges of limited resources. Despite the constraints, we encourage ourselves to work with what we have,” he added.
“We inform the leaders to make improvements and bring change to our community, with the goal of solving our problems,” he concluded.
