Pregnant women carried on bamboo to hospital due to poor roads

11:35 - 30 January 2017

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Vehicles don't use the road since road network leading to the community is not motorable.

Ill patients and pregnant women in Asinesi, a remote farming community in the Yilo Krobo district of the Eastern region are being carried on a bamboo stretcher to travel a long distance to hospital due to the poor road network and the absence of a health facility.

Residents in the community said the situation has led to many deaths hence there is no health facility nearby.

According to report by Starr FM, the village has a population of 1000 and the only means of transport to the community is motor bikes commonly known as 'Okada'.

Most 'Okada' riders are reluctant to ply the deplorable road.

The Assembly Member for the area Isaac Amanor said, the situation is very troubling and something urgent.

He said government must fix the road network and provide a CHP compound in the community to provide basic health services to the community.

"For treatment we use to make our native something we use to carry the sick person, we are Ghanaians so we are telling the government to help us, we are suffering, my wife is even sick, we suffer a lot in this village, our road network is very deplorable, we have no electricity, no hospital, are we not Ghanaians?, "he quizzed.