IGF USED TO TRANSFORM MAMPONG MIDWIFERY SCHOOL

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Lady Julia(left) assisting Mrs. Yamoah cutting the anniv. cake

The Midwifery and Health Assistant Training School at Asante Mampong has seen a tremendous infrastructural transformation within the last 10 years. 

This has subsequently led to a leap jump in the student enrolment of the School from about 60 10 years ago to the current population of one thousand, 816 comprising Post Basic Midwifery Certificate, Diploma in Midwifery and Health Assistant Clinical students. 

The Principal of the School, Mrs. Lydia Asiedua  Yamoah, who made this known, attributed the transformation to the permission granted by government to the school to use its internally generated funds for internal development. 

Mrs. Yamoah was addressing a grnad durbar of the various stakeholders at Mampong to climax the 60th anniversary celebration of the school.

 The celebration was on the theme: “60 Years of Midwifery Training;  Acievements, Challenges and Way forward”. 

The Mampong Midwifery and Health Assistant Training School was established in 1954 by the Order of Holy Paraclete Anglican Reverend Sisters as part of the Saint Monica Educational Complex. 

The pioneer students were just three which now stands at one thousand 816 including the first batch of male Post Basic Midwifery students. 

The Principal said the Ministry of Health in 2005 gave the school permission to retain its IGF which has been used to provide the needed physical infrastructure. 

These include a kilometer of access road  linking the school and the Mampong Hospital, a four-unit classroom block, a three-thousand seater new auditorium, construction of eight staff residential bungalows, two skills acquisition laboratories for student practicals, ICT laboratories as well as the provision of reliable water supply to student hostels. 

Mrs. Yamoah noted however, that the school still needs a number of essential logistics and facilities key among them being a standby generator to assure the schools’ community of reliable power supply for continued academic work in this period of national energy crisis. 

The Asante Mamponhene, Daasebre Osei Bonsu challenged the school to strive become degree-awarding institution by its 75th milestone and pledged the total support of the traditional council towards the attainment of that vision. 

He announced that the Mampong Traditional Council will finance the erection of a memorial bust in recognition and appreciation of the exceptional work done by the current Principal since her appointment 10 years ago. 

The wife of the Asantehene, Lady Julia Osei Tutu, said the promulgation of the Millennium Goals to fight infant and maternal mortality is enough attestation of the importance the world attaches to the health of women and children. 

It is therefore imperative for midwifery training schools in Ghana to adequately empower midwives to provide the desired quality health care to women before, during and even after pregnancy. 

The on behalf of the Kumasi Anglican Diocese, the Primate of the Province of West Africa of the Church, Most Reverend Professor Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, presented a citation to the Principal for her sterling leadership.

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