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The Manso Adubia Constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region, Dr Kofi Osei-Afoakwa, as part of his 60th birthday celebration, has commissioned a solar-powered 16-bed Medical Ward with entertainment facility for the Manso Adubia Health Centre. The total cost of the project is about GH₵50,000. Dr Kofi Osei-Afoakwa decided to build the ward after visiting the health centre, where he saw men and women share one ward. In addition, he has built a 14-seater KVIP toilet facility in his hometown, Manso Odaho, to be commissioned tomorrow. According to him, the projects were made possible through personal savings and contributions from business associates, friends and well-wishers who contributed monies and materials. Speaking at the handing-over ceremony, Dr Osei-Afoakwa said the construction of the ward demonstrates how individuals can supplement government�s developmental efforts. He was worried that Manso Adubia was grappling with poverty and squalor, hunger, ignorance, environmental degradation and diseases. He therefore promised to commit his life to the welfare of the people of Manso Adubia by working to improve the wellbeing of the people. Consequently, he promised a district status, district hospital, resourcing of four health centres, four additional senior high schools with adequate infrastructure, affordable education, among others. He said free for all degradation of the environment through uncontrolled �galamsey� operations had been replaced by controlled and lawful private mining activities which guarantee environmental restoration designed to bequeath prosperity to the people of Manso Adubia and beyond. In addition, Mr Osei-Afoakwa promised to ensure that at least two persons from each home in the constituency are educated to the tertiary level to gain employment. He announced plans to establish Manso Adubia Development Foundation to seek funding to provide quality health care facilities for the poor in society and lobby for development projects for the constituency. The chief of Manso Adubia, Nana Doku Appiah Dankwah II, said the Adubia Health Centre forms part of five health facilities constructed by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1962. According to him, the other four at Ejura, Nkenkaasu, Jeji and Akrokerri had been upgraded to hospital status, except of Adubia Health Centre. He added that several steps and letters had been written to the Ministry of Health in Accra and the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate but yielded no positive results. He therefore appealed to government to as a matter of urgency upgrade the facility to a hospital status to enable it provide good services to the huge number of people who troop to the facility to access health care. Medical Assistance at the centre, Dr Kofi Bosompim Yartel commended the Chairman for the gesture and pledged to put the facility to good use.