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TMA to receive $115,000 to refurbish Tamale Hospital
By Abdul Karim Naatogma/citifmonline | Fri 20th November, 2009 14:56 GMT
The Tamale Teaching Hospital
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly is to receive an additional grant of 115, 000 US Dollars to support the rehabilitation and refurbishment of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
 
The money is expected to improve water supply and maintenance of sanitation at the Tamale Teaching Hospital to enable that health facility bequeath its status as the major health referral centre in Northern Ghana.
 
Alhaji Abudulai Harrun Friday, Mayor of Tamale announced this at the second ordinary meeting of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly where he summarized the assembly’s successes, setbacks and the way forward to meet the Better Ghana concept President J.E.A Mills promised Ghanaians.
 
He further explained that the financial assistance will form part of positive results coming out of an eight member assembly person’s recent visit to Louisville in the United States of America courtesy the Tamale-Louisville sister city relationship
 
The Tamale Mayor reiterated the need for the Tamale metropolis to maintain its prestigious trademark as the cleanest city in Ghana and to achieve this; he disclosed that the assembly in collaboration with a Non Governmental Organization called Rural Integrated Development Agency is to put up modern water closet toilet facilities in 30 communities for a start.
 
Alhaji Friday said only five schools were beneficiaries of the Ghana School Feeding Programme however thirteen additional schools have been added bringing the total number to 18.
 
He mentioned Zogbeli Ansuariya primary school, Guunaayili Zion, Cheshe Roman Catholic, Markaziya and Tuya-Saniya primary schools among others that are to benefit from the Ghana School Feeding Programme.
 
According to Alhaji Friday, the Millennium Development Authority has earmarked 12 peri-urban communities including Choggu, Donini, Tuu-Tingli, Wamale East, Dakpema, Kulnyavila and Katariga and each of them is to benefit from a two-unit classroom block with sick bay, furniture, sanitation facilities, teaching and learning materials.
 
The Tamale Mayor yet complained that the assembly was not doing enough in the area of internal revenue generation and thereby called on the committee responsible for that sector to institute innovative and pragmatic measures to improve the assembly’s locally generated finances.
 
Alhaji Abudulai Harrun Friday also commended the citizens of Tamale for allowing peace to prevail over the few months and urged them to make the culture of impunity a thing of the past by re-channeling their resources in productive ventures that will assist in the eradication of poverty, hunger, disease and ignorance in the metropolis and beyond.
 
 
 

 
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