The Paga Youth Movement, a community-based youth group in the Kassena-Nankana West District, has reaffirmed its commitment to collaborating with the management of the Paga District Hospital to improve holistic healthcare services in the area.
The assurance was made during a courtesy call on the hospital’s management on Thursday, August 14, 2025, as part of a series of engagements with stakeholders within the Paga community.
Established in 1981 as a health centre and later upgraded to a district hospital in 2022, the Paga Hospital remains the only major health facility in the Kassena-Nankana West District. However, since its upgrade, the hospital has not witnessed significant infrastructural improvement.
“We have been struggling, our infrastructure doesn’t exist when we consider the number of people that we are serving,” Dr. Didier Oteng, Medical Superintendent of Paga Hospital
The Paga Youth Movement has been a key partner in supporting the hospital. Currently, the group is constructing a building to serve as a surgical theatre, an initiative that remains central to their development agenda.
In addition, the group has been advocating for the completion of the Agenda 111 hospital project in Paga, which was initiated under the erstwhile Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration. They estimate that the project is about 85 percent complete and stress that its completion will be a game changer for healthcare delivery in the district.
Chairman of the Movement, Wenawome Aborah, highlighted the importance of partnership in advancing quality health service delivery.
“Health is critical to every life, and we deem it important that, as stakeholders, we need to always engage so that wherever we all have a certain responsibility to play, we also reach out to help as a community.”
Dr. Oteng, on his part, acknowledged the consistent support from the Movement and urged deeper collaboration, particularly in completing the surgical theatre project.
“We feel happy when we collaborate with you. You not only challenge us but you support us to ensure that our mission is realised and our goals are achieved. We appreciate you and want you to intensify this sort of collaboration.”
He further appealed to organisations and individuals to support the hospital’s operations, stressing the urgent need for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), incubators, additional wards, and office space to meet the growing health demands of the district.
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