PADEF-EJ officially launches ultra-modern health post in Senegal's Keur Serigne Louga district
The Support Project for the Development of Female Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment (PADEF-EJ) coordinator, Mame Thierno Gueye and the Governor of Senegal's Louga region, El Hadj Bouya Amar, on Wednesday, August 9th 2023, officially launched an ultra-modern health center in the Keur Serigne Louga district. The health center includes an ambulance, two reception rooms, offices, treatment, observation and hospitalization rooms. The medical post also has a maternity ward, pharmacy, and staff accommodations. Millennium Promise Alliance is supporting PADEF-EJ by providing technical assistance, and implementation of the infrastructures and services components including the establishment of the new health post.
The new health infrastructures are a result of a partnership between PADEF-EJ and the Association of Residents of the Keur Serigne Louga district. The center will solve a great obstacle of lack of quality healthcare for the surrounding communities. The center and medical expertise have been well received as up to now, more than 1,700 people have been consulted by practitioners. The health center is also contributing to a reduction in home births, thus far, 27 women haven given birth in the new maternity ward.
The project coordinator, Mame Thierno Gueye, declared that PADEF-EJ embraces the State's vision based on the observation that Senegal is faced with a deficit in terms of basic social infrastructure, particularly health. "As part of PADEF-EJ, in partnership with Millennium Promise, the project continued an initiative of emigrants from the Keur Serigne Louga Sud district who had already started to build this building," informed Mr. Gueye. He points out that "the position has made it possible to solve a good part of the problems of home birth in the Keur Seringe Louga district and the surrounding districts".
This vital health intervention addresses two of PADEF-EJ's objectives to (i) Facilitate the development of female entrepreneurship through Islamic finance; and (ii) Generalize access to basic social infrastructure and services in the municipalities of Léona, Ngeune Sarr, Sakal and Louga. The health center is constructed at the cost of an estimated FCfa 120 million, which was built with financial support of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). State services and the municipality of Louga will continue to support the health post going forward.
Recent achievements in other sectors of the project also include an agricultural shopping center in the Montagne extension district and a cereal product processing unit under construction in Medina Salam, a milk marketing unit in Potou, and a financing component at Dahra and Kébémer.
PADEF-EJ is helping to strengthen the health systems and decentralize the supply of care for the benefit of the communities throughout the district.
Source: aps.sn and seneweb.com


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