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•Faith Elizabeth Nkrumah, CEO, Faith Homeopathic Clinic
Ghanaians cautioned
against abuse
of pain killers
FROM STEPHEN OPPONG
MENSAH, KUMASI
mensahs30@yahoo.com
THE CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO)
of Faith Homeopathic Clinic at
Ahenema-Kokoben, near Kumasi, Mrs
Elizabeth Faith Nkrumah, has
cautioned Ghanaians to desist from
abusing drugs meant to control bodily
pains, commonly referred to as pain
killers.
She observed that most people have
resorted to regular intake of these
drugs without recourse to prescription
by medical professionals, which has
created complicated problems to the
vital organs of their body.
According to her, many people have
problems with their heart, lung and
kidney due to the constant abuse of
these drugs.
She urged Ghanaians to always seek
medical advice before taking such
drugs because abuse of pain killers has
long-term negative effects on human
organs.
Speaking to the DAILY
HERITAGE in an interview, Mrs
Nkrumah stressed that “many people
who come to my clinic have problems
relating to their vital organs, which are
attributable to the continuous abuse of
pain killers.”
She warned that the constant abuse
of pain killers does not only have
defect on the organs of the body but
the system of such persons becomes
resistant to any treatment.
“People have just been abusing pain
killers thinking since it worked for their
friends, there was nothing wrong to
use them without medical advice,” she
observed.
She said at Faith Homeopathic
Clinic, cases like eye problems,
infertility, stroke, diabetes and other
related health issues were diagnosed
promptly, hence the huge patronage of
their services.
Mrs Nkrumah pointed out that
aside counselling and praying for those
who visited the clinic, all their vital
organs were critically examined
through the use of a unique machine
to determine the right quantity of dose
of medicine to administer to them.
She explained that Faith
Homeopathic Clinic, though started
from a little beginning at Bogoso in the
Western Region in 2010, has stretched
its tentacles to Kumasi and Accra with
ultra-modern diagnosing centres
following the prompt diagnoses people
have been receiving for their cases.
“Since good health is a springboard
to spur up the development of the
nation, we at Faith Homeopathic Clinic
would give out the best form of
treatment in 2018 to our cherished
clients,” she said.
Kwamoso gets modern health facility
BY KOJO ANSAH
AMODERN health
facility has been
constructed and
commissioned by Plan
International, Ghana
for the Kwamoso
community in the Akuapem North
Municipality of the Eastern Region to
replace a very stressed CHPS
compound struggling to deliver basic
healthcare to the inhabitants,
predominantly peasant farmers.
Due to the situation at the old
facility, many patients were frequently
referred to the Tetteh Quarshie
Memorial Hospital and other health
facilities for treatment as the old
facility lacked the capacity to deal with
it.
This, according to the residents, was
a disturbing phenomenon as many lost
their lives travelling to seek healthcare
outside the community.
“The old facility didn't have
anything so we were always referred
and sometimes people die on their way.
Pregnant women could not get some
basic things here,” a resident noted.
However, the GH¢ 310,000.00 new
health facility supported financially by
a Japanese philanthropist -Yoshida, has
dispensary, two consulting rooms,
nurses bay, a laboratory, and a store.
The facility is fitted with seven
water closets and six bathrooms. It is
also furnished with 30 metallic seats
for OPD, two executive desks, and
four chairs for the consulting room, a
delivery bed, three baby cots, four
children beds and a refrigerator, all
envisaged to improve primary
healthcare delivery and reduce the
frequent referrals.
But the midwife in charge, Mrs
Bossman Osei, says despite the
improved facility furnished with
logistics, the inadequate number of
staff still remained a challenge. She
said at least a physician assistant and
staff nurses are needed to help handle
cases that come at the facility and
extend service delivery to 24 hours.
According to her, currently the
facility has only one midwife, a staff
nurse and three community nurses
taking care of a population of over
15,000 at Kwamoso and other
surrounding villages.
Nana Dwumazi, chief for the Ewe
community at Kwamoso, told the
DAILY HERITAGE the government
or philanthropists must come to the
aid of the community to help build a
bungalow for the health workers to
enable them to work all day and night
to help save lives.
"Because the nurses do not live in
this community they don't work in the
evening, so if someone suddenly falls
sick, we find ourselves wanting.
Therefore, we are appealing to
philanthropists and the government to
help us build a bungalow for the
nurses," he stated.
Penplusbytes donates to Battor special school
AS PART of giving back to society and
also contributing to the lives of sociallyexcluded
children in the Ghanaian society,
Penplusbytes, during the Easter festivities,
paid a visit to the Three Kings Special
School for the Mentally Handicapped at
Battor in the Volta Region, where they
donated assorted items, including gallons
of cooking oil, boxes of tinned fish, bags
of maize, beans and rice, toiletries and
more.
The gesture formed part of the
organisation’s corporate social
responsibility and comes in response to
the need to support efforts aimed at
making the lives of the less-privileged
children, numbering over 100 and living
under the care of the school, a lot more
comfortable.
Speaking at the short presentation
ceremony, Mr Jerry Sam, Director of
Programmes at Penplusbytes, reiterated the
importance of the gesture, saying; “the
purpose of our visit resonates with our
core mandate of making a change in our
society using innovative projects. We
believe giving back to the society where we
belong is a worthwhile gesture and what
better time to do so than during this
Easter period.”
He called on corporate bodies and
philanthropists to emulate such benevolent
acts and care for the needy, especially
those outside the capital, Accra, and help
such special schools which had been
neglected for long.
A visibly elated headmistress of the
school, Madam Ophelia Kushigbor, could
•The GH¢ 310,000.00 new health facility is expected to bring relief to the people
not hide her joy at the gesture.
She expressed her profound gratitude
to Penplusbytes for what she termed as a
timely answer to her prayers, especially
during the festive season. She was
•Jerry Sam, Director of Programmes at Penplusbytes, presenting the items to the school
particularly enthused by how the
organisation responded swiftly to her call
and asked for continuous support from
both individuals and corporate entities to
help keep the school running.
“These items would go a long way in
sustaining the kids and I will use this
opportunity to ask the government to
complete the GETFUND dormitory
project which has been abandoned for
nearly a decade. Special children need
special care and we can’t keep converting
our classrooms to dormitories to
accommodate the increasing number,” she
noted.
Kofi Boateng eyes
V/R NPP chair seat
FROM PATRICE SYLVESTER
SELORMEY- HO,
pselormey2015@gmail.com
A LEADING member of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr
Kofi Boateng, has decided to
contest the Volta regional
chairmanship slot of the party
in the April 20 Delegates
Conference.
Mr Boateng, who was a
former special assistant to
former Volta Regional Minister,
Mr Kofi Dzamesi, in the
erstwhile John Kufuor
administration, has since 1992
been a member of the Hohoe
constituency executive.
Mr Boateng, who was also
one time regional secretary of
the party, made his intention
known to the DAILY
HERITAGE after he filed his
nomination forms in Ho.
He said he had decided to
assume the regional
chairmanship position to unite
the rank-and-file of the party in
the region and mobilise the
people to rally behind the NPP
for a resounding victory in the
2020 general election.
He said the Volta Region
had not been a strong base of
the NPP since 1992. The NPP
obtained below 11% of the
presidential votes in the 2012
elections and registered only
10% of the presidential votes
in the 2016 elections. This, he
said, must be reversed.
According to Mr Boateng,
that could only be
accomplished with unity,
dedication and commitment on
the part of the rank-and-file of
the party in the region, adding
that his long experience as a
constituency executive, regional
secretary and a special assistant,
had positioned him well to lead
the party in the region for a
resounding victory at the 2020
polls.
In an answer to a question
as to what he would do
differently to ensure victory at
the 2020 polls, he said he
would actively involve all five
polling station executive
members in every polling
station and also have the party’s
electoral coordinators to spread
the good messages of the party
•Kofi Boateng, Volta
Regional NPP chair aspirant
to increase its support base.
He also pledged to support
and help resource the party’s
foot-soldiers to penetrate the
communities to drum home the
need to maintain the NPP in
government to continue with
its good policies and
programmes for the benefit of
the ordinary Ghanaian.
“Our only problem is to
increase both the presidential
votes and parliamentary seats in
the region to enable the party
to be victorious in the 2020
elections,” Mr Boateng
reiterated.
He, therefore, called on all
members and supporters of the
NPP in the region to give him
the mandate to lead the party.
According to Mr
Boateng, that could
only be accomplished
with unity, dedication
and commitment on
the part of the rankand-file
of the party in
the region, adding
that his long
experience as a
constituency
executive, regional
secretary and a
special assistant, had
positioned him well to
lead the party in the
region for a
resounding victory at
the 2020 polls.