Regional Health Directorate-Upper West

09/06/2022

The Covid-19 vaccination team is currently stationed at the RHA main Block. All should come for their boosters.

02/03/2022

We will be going live soon. Annual Year Review starts in a Bit.

26/02/2022

Hurray, The Performance Review is here

26/02/2022

Its time for our Annual Performance Review

21/02/2022

The Regional Health Directorate - Upper West Region(GHS) is sending special invitation for their Annual year Performance Review.

26/11/2021

26/11/2021

The Regional Director of Health Service (Dr. Damien Punguyire) has handed over two Amarok UW pick-up vehicles to beneficiary facilities: Lambussie Polyclinic and Wa West District Hospital.
The pick-ups are procured under the GHS hire purchase scheme. These pick-up vehicles are to be used for health service delivery in the region.

07/11/2021

The Upper West Regional Health Directorate has partnered with the 2014 winner of the Ghana Most Beautiful (GMB) pageant, Miss Abigail Baciara Bentie, popularly known as Queen Baci, to provide health education and screening for residents of Wa in the Upper Region.
The team conducted health screening through her Malol-lol Ghana foundation (MGF), distributed nose masks for over 1200 residents, provided awareness creation and education of beneficiaries on healthy lifestyle and diet, and provided COVID-19 vaccination for eligible persons who turned for the exercise.
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Service, Dr. Damien Punguyire, commended the Beauty Queen for the health initiative, which seeks to improve the health of the indigenes. The Director urged her to use her exemplary life to help fight the high incidence of teenage pregnancy in the region by serving as a role model for the up-and-coming young girls in the area.
Malol-lol Ghana Foundation was launched on 30th May 2015 by queen Baci as a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political organization to thank Ghanaians for the support given her during the 2014 contest.
Malol-lol is an indigenous Sissali word from the Upper West region where the queen hails, which means 'Thank You'.

22/10/2021

Excerpts from 2021 Half Year Regional Health Performance Review meeting.

22/10/2021

Our attention has been drawn to a picture circulating on social media purported to be the NICU unit of the Wa Municipal hospital where newborn babies are being nursed on plastic chairs. We wish to state that the pictures circulating are not from the said hospital and should be ignored. Below are pictures of the current state of the NICU unit of the hospital

22/10/2021

'I took my second shot of the AstraZeneca brand of the COVID19 vaccine earlier today(1st September, 2021). It feels good to note that l am fully vaccinated and protected against the virus. That notwithstanding, l am not taking any chances at all as far as this virus is concern. I will continue to mask up, sanitize hands, social distance and limit being in a crowded, enclosed areas until new evidence proves that it is safe to return pre-pandemic social environment. I encourage you too to go for the vaccine when you have the opportunity and observe all the proven public health and social measures.
Vaccines Safe Lives'!!!-Dr. Damien Punguyire, Regional Director of Health Service, Upper West Region.
Wa
Damien Punguyire
Upper West Regional Hospital
Rhd Central Region