A 50-bed capacity Mother and Care hospital project has been handed over to the Agusi community, a suburb of Sumbrungu in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region.
The project, fitted with the state-of-the-art medical equipment, was constructed by an international non-governmental organisation, Engage Now Africa, with funding support from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Speaking at the handover ceremony at Agusi over the weekend, the Founder of Engage Now Africa, Dr Lynette Gay, said the construction of the hospital was a fulfillment of the organisation's corporate social responsibility of giving back to the society.
She said the NGO had been operating in the region, precisely the Bolgatanga Municipality for the past 15 years, and was familiar with the dire challenges bedevilling the folk in some rural communities, especially in the area of health.