Madam Zinabu Yakubu, a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) at Tanina in the Wa West District, has appealed to benevolent individuals and organizations to support the community to complete a maternity unit under construction.
She said the unit, when completed, would help alleviate the challenges women went through to access skilled delivery services at Poyentanga or Wa in the Upper West Region.
“We don’t have a delivery room here so women go to Poyentanga or Wa. We are suffering but what can we do,” Madam Yakubu said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA).
She said she had served the women in the community for several years, as a TBA, until the Government made it mandatory for every pregnant woman to deliver at a health facility.