The Ghana Highways Authority (GHA), has been asked to rehabilitate the Koforidua-Mamfi road to facilitate the movement of vehicles and prevent motor accidents.
Adequate road signs should also be provided, especially along the Mamfi Hill, to caution drivers about the dangerous nature of the route that had developed deep potholes.
Mr Victor Doku, Akuapem North District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), made the appeal at a durbar to climax activities marking World Disaster Reduction Week, at Mampong-Akuapem on Friday.
The week-long programme was organized by NADMO on the theme: "Hospitals, safe from disasters, reduce risk, protect health facilities, save lives".
Mr Doku said the Asuoyaa and Yensusu bridges were too narrow and had developed serious cracks beneath, which required urgent repairs in view of heavy traffic on the road.
Mr George Opare Addo, Akuapem North District Chief Executive, in a speech read on his behalf, urged NADMO to sensitise health workers in the district on effective ways of handling disaster situations.
He called on individuals and organisations to support government to enforce bye-laws on disaster management.
Mr Ransford Boakye, Eastern Regional Co-ordinator of NADMO, explained that the programme was aimed at protecting patients and health workers in the event of disasters by ensuring structural resilience of health facilities.
He said it was also to ensure the functioning of health facilities and provision of health services after emergencies and disasters, and to improve risk reduction and emergency management capacity of health workers and institutions.
Mr Boakye called for "re-engineering of health facilities so that they can withstand emergencies or disasters of any kind."
Dr Joseph Kwadwo Opare, the District Director of Health Services, called on political leaders, health workers and the public to collectively ensure effective management of disasters and emergencies at hospitals.
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