By: NyimaSillah
YakumbaJaiteh, United Democratic Party National Assembly member for Serrekunda, has promised to advocate and ensure that Serrekunda Health Centre gets a maternity ward in a bid to ease the birth delivery of women within the constituency, if she is elected into parliament on April 9.
She said she would touch on the problem of Serrekunda people as raised to her during her house-to-house engagements, she said one of them is the Serrekunda maternal ward at the Sandika.
She explained the situation that “The fact that the maternity ward is yet to be built, right now when the women of Serrekunda want to have their babies, they always go to the Serrekunda Hospital in Kanifing. This is one issue they have raised with me and this is one issue I intended to raise in the parliament, follow it up and make sure it is done when I get elected.”
“A job of a parliamentarian is to go to the house make sure the voices of the people representing is heard. So, if my people want the maternity ward in Serrekunda to be fixed, it would be my responsibility to address this at parliament to the Minister of Health,” she added.
Meanwhile, she said the other issue raised by the residence of London Corner is the issue of the bridge, adding that parliamentarian cannot directly do development but the role is to influence development by raising the issue of his her constituency in the parliament.
“Last year for the first time in the history of parliament, we have what is called the Constituency Development Fund this is a minimum amount of three hundred thousand which you get every year. If I am supposed to be given this fund, I will go back to the people of Serrekunda and ask them their priority and I am hoping they will say the bridge because I am really concern about the bridge and this amount of money, I believe can fix the bridge after the assessment is done,” she stated.
More so, she is ready to table other relevant issues of her people before the National Assembly if elected in the scheduled election.