The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the  North Tongu, Mr. Richard Collins Arku, has stated that  the digital Medical Village at Volo will remain unattended to except health professionals agree to work in the facility willingly.

Mr Arku passed the comment while speaking in a Town Hall Meeting which was organised to render account on how the facility has been managed and how it has served the  interest of the public as well as seeking to address complaints and views to direct its decisions and plans at Juapong.

According to the DCE, it was very difficult to get staff to run the facility due to the fact that the Volta regional branch of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has been unable to provide the needed hand to man the place.

Lack of decent staff accommodation and the rural setting of the facility, he said were part of the reasons why prospective staff did not want to come.

According to him, the best solution was to search for a willing science-inclined indigene, sponsor him or her for upgraded training to come back and help, or else "this beautiful, expensive and important facility shall remain a white elephant forever, painfully."

Dubbed "Digital Village", the USD860,000 well-equipped facility, located at Volo, was constructed in 2015 to improve the healthcare of residents and satellite communities after a pregnant woman died in the community before she could reach the nearest health facility located several kilometers away beyond the Volta Lake.

It was mainly funded by Samsung in collaboration with UNESCO and Government of Ghana.

The facility comprised a solar-powered fully equipped medical centre, a solar-powered internet school to accommodate 24 students, an administrative block and a solar-powered generator to run all the facilities.

The DCE said suggestions to the health authorities to run occasional medical outreaches or an alternative plan of connecting the running of the village to the St. Anne's Polyclinic at Tagadzi also in the area, could work.