Kpoe Residents in Bong District #2 Appeal for Health Facility

By: J. Boimah Johnson |Bong Correspondent

Kpoe Town, Bong County |January 5, 2026 |Residents of Kpoe Town in Electoral District #2 Bong County are said to be in dire need of health facility.

Kpoe Town, located in Bong Electoral District #2, has over 500 residents with children and women constituting 60% of the population.

In an interview with one of the sons and spokesperson of the town, Cooper Kermue, he explained that the town’s currently lacks clinic or health facility; a situation posing serious difficulty for them.

He described the current situation as being very untenable for the residents especially women and children. He added that they usually transport pregnant women and children to Gbarnga for treatment; something he attributed to the lack of clinic in Kpoe town.

Kermue emphasized that, if the Government cannot at this time come to their aid by constructing facility, living condition will be practically in inhabitable if not impossible.

Kpoe Town spokesman is therefore appealing to authority of the Ministry of Health kindly come to the aid of the town by constructing a clinic which will be tasked with the responsibility of catering to the health needs of the town and parts adjacent.

“We are suffering here, no clinic in this town, whenever our people get sick, we transport them to the Gbarnga for treatment, especially pregnant women and children, something that has caused us to even lose some of our people due to absence of a clinic or hospital,” Kermue sadly explained.

The issue of lack of health facility in rural Liberia is not only affecting Kpoe Town in Bong County, but several other rural communities are equally faced with similar conditions, and central government intervention is needed, to curtail pregnant women and children deaths.