By Solomon T. Gaye
-Nimba
The Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Gbloryee Community Health Center, Grace J. Yahweh, says the lack of a maternity ward is hampering the running of the clinic in Gompa, Nimba County.
Yanweh said to cater to critical pregnant women or women in delivery pain is worrisome and is creating serious concern among the residents of the community.
According to the clinic’s OIC, the clinic caters to more than 80 pregnant women every month who are registered and are ongoing medical treatment for safe delivery.
“The lack of a maternity ward for pregnant women who are in critical conditions is even as difficult as it is to stabilize them before transferring them and this a critical issue that needs the government’s prompt intervention to save a life before it gets too late,” OIC Yanweh pointed out.
“The community members have embarked on the construction of the maternity ward at this clinic but, they don’t have money to carry out the construction faster and the project is now at a standstill,” the OIC revealed.
Speaking further, Yanweh reveals that normal activities have resumed at the health center after the national Go-Slow by MOH workers in the country.
“We resumed working under conditions at this health center, we can sit here and see pregnant women in pain, we stay has some critical issues here, 10 of the health workers here are volunteers, and some of the professional nurses here are under paid, receiving nurse aid salary; no operation funds; no water system and no maternity home, among other things,” the government Gbloryee Community OIC Yanweh lamented.
From the beginning of 2024 to 2025, reports of acute shortages of essential drugs, go-slow action in demand of employment of volunteer health workers, and good working conditions at the various government centers are now the order of the day in Nimba.
Gbloryee Community Health Center is among government-operated health centers that lack basic essential drugs and other medical materials.
When this paper contacted the G.W. Harley hospital in Sanniquellie over the weekend, the hospital’s assigned security informed this paper that its Human Rights Officer Alex Gban was out of the office.
“The HR that is supposed to speak to you on the issue is out of the office, the medical doctor is also busy,” the security emphasized.
