MANSO NKWANTA DEVELOPMENT
Construction of a Nursing and Midwifery
Training College is to begin this year at Mpatuam in the Amansie West district
of Ashanti to expand access to nursing and midwifery training in the country.
The project, to be jointly funded by the MP for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Quarm and
his business partners at a cost of 40 thousand Dollars, is to augment
government’s efforts at improving manpower development for the health sector.
The MP announced this at a town hall meeting with his constituents at Manso
Nkwanta, the district capital. It was the first time the MP was meeting to
interact with his constituents since his assumption of duty in January this
year.
He used that opportunity to update the people on the efforts he has since
been making to speed up the district’s socio-economic development.
Mr. Quarm
noted that the nursing and midwifery training school will admit about two
thousand students in the first year to serve also as an avenue for the senior
high school graduates in the district to further their education.
Touching on
other development issues, the MP told the constituents that he is working very
hard to win the construction of an Activated Carbon project also in the
district that could create about 20 thousand job opportunities for the people.
Mr. Quarm assured the people that with the government’s policy to remit the
Cedi equivalent of one million Dollars to each district, there will be adequate
funds available for many development projects to be executed to raise the
status of the Amansie West district, which, despite its vast size.
The
district, which has two constituencies, Manso Nkwanta and Manso Adubia, is a
major producer of food crops and cocoa.
However, it is arguably one of the most
deprived districts in the country with just a few kilometers of
bitumen-surfaced road.
The MP said he has already made contacts with
development partners for the construction of a Lorry Terminal complex that
would comprise a Market.
He therefore appealed for the support of all the
people, especially the traditional leaders in his efforts to bring development
to the area.
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