Pregnant Women Are Dying

''Our Pregnant Women Are Dying'' Due To Bad Road Network….Community Heads   As a result of bad roads, pregnant women including critically ill patients in Nheneso No.1 have to walk 8 miles to access health care in Trabuom all in the Atwima Kwanwoma constituency of the Ashanti Region. Through this long-distance trek, most women lose their lives during child labour.

The situation is as a result of the unmotorable nature of roads and lack of clinics or CHPS facilities to serve the interest of the community. Through this challenging situation confronting the community, pregnant women have resorted into risk methods of transport such as bicycle, tricycle, motorbikes to access health care. Many of whom also turn to traditional medicine and traditional birth attendants for maternal health services.

Damak Sanitation Watch and Health, in a follow up to a group photograph of children in the Nheneso No.1 intercepted by our outfit. In the said photograph, children were seen with bare-foot and virtually naked wearing self-designed face masks in their bid to comply with the covid-19 safety protocols. Among these children, eight of them are virtually poor, their month has to do all kinds of jobs to put food on the table for them once a day.

Their father, according to our findings, is dead and their foster-father also neglected them, of which the grown-up ones among them have to help people to eat. Through this hardship, two out of the eight are in school while the rest are ambling around the community. When the team met Opainin Kwame Dapah , head of the community, this is what he has to say; ''we are going through a very difficult situation, the living standard is very poor, pregnant women are dying anytime they are in labour due to the bad nature of the road…the chief linguist of this community died on the way to the clinic due to the long hours wasted on the way because of the deplorable condition of the road''. Nheneso No.1, he said, is a farming community. Sanitation, waste management, education, health and community development is affecting its forward development.

Residents, according to Opainin Kwame Dapah have resorted into public defecation following an old dilapidated condition toilet facility in the community. A situation, he noted, will spawn future health risk in the area and call for support from the District Assembly, non-government organisations, and individual philanthropists to enhance the growth and development of the community.

The community's biggest challenge is a good road and health facility to enable them to save the lives of their pregnant women and children. Following these core reasons, has underscored the need for policymakers, the district authorities and the government to come to their aid to enable them to eradicate illegal disposal of waste, defecation, mortality and child death.   DAMAKsanitation watch and health has made arrangements to meet the district chief executive about the situation very soon.   These picture were talking during the following up period.

Cancel The WASCE

Cancel The WASCE
And BECE Exams Now To Save The Lives Of Our Children. .Damak Sanitation Watch & Health To Gov’t The government of Ghana has suddenly failed under the pretext of lip-service approach in the fight of the novel coronavirus pandemic where the precious lives of our young girls and boys are being mischievously traded with politics.
The 'robot and go-it-alone style'' has symbolized our weakness to confront the covid-19 crisis, of which we have reflected our focus as a nation on politics instead of facilitating measures to curb the situation. We cannot solemnly invest the sovereignty of the country into political bigotry. In a seeming attempt to deflect from our own widely criticized handling of the pandemic…which has led to the death of over 139 Ghanaians to date, policy-makers especially health experts and civil societies including well-meaning Ghanaians have a duty to play in the fight of  the pandemic. The gradually wide spread  of the virus in the Senior High Schools are concerns that need a holistic approach by all stakeholders. If the lack of robust leadership in the fight of covid-19 is missing, we will severely pay the price. For that core reason, the government's response to the covid-19 should be indeed thoroughly canvas for sufficient policy plans to facilitate the safety of our children in school.
If not, we will not only fail to stand up for vigorous core strategic road-map to end the spread of the virus, we will rather actualize grounds to increase it spread. We cannot pretend to adopt the adamance lifestyle and say all is well. The Health Ministry, the Education Ministry and the covid-19 team even though their best have been exhibited, we further encourage them not to put off their candles to continue ensuring that the novel coronavirus does not rest on our lives.. We reiterate the government not to allow politics to gain grounds in the health community even though it has been an undeniable fact that politics are not playing a key role in the fight of the covid-19.
The entrenched position of government officials to facilitate their parochial interest is a recipe to put the lives of students in danger. ’We cannot wait to hit by the face with increasing death tolls in our schools before taking actions’’. We therefore appealed to the president to consider the vast spread of the virus in the schools and do the blissful thing and closed down the school amidst cancelling the WASSCE and BECE.
Despite the several calls from civil organizations, political parties, the parent-teacher association, Damak Sanitation Watch and Health also conceived the same idea for the reason being that, the virus is gradually catching up with students in the schools and thought  over it closer and cancellation. Our information has it that the Ministry of Education however, claimed that experts' advice indicates that enough facilities have been provided to mitigate the spread of the virus in our schools. Thus, there is no course for alarm. However, such self-centered expert analysis has failed to arrest the situation. Barely a month since the schools reopened, close to 14 Senior High Schools are said to have been affected with the virus and out of the 14 schools, over 130 students tested covid-19 positive. That notwithstanding, another student from Gwirama Senior High School in the Western Region , Nathaniel Yankey lost his life believed to be the Covid-19.
This reveals that the signs don’t look good and the lives of our wards matters most to us. Our concerns as parents and the position of the government are unparalleled and there is no clear cut solution to address the problem in the affected schools. If the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Cocoa board, and the Ministry of Health are said to have been closed down due to the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, what are our children still doing in the schools? These are key legitimate questions that many parents continue  asking;
The president of the land has gone into self-isolation, the Education Minister, is self-quarantined, the Health Minister is self-quarantined at the time whose presence matters most. The safety of students and the entire country are sitting on tentacles. We want to find out whether the education experts thought of students who tested positive how they will participate in writing the exams? And even if their conditions permit them to do so, under what circumstances will their exams papers be marked. All these are pertinent questions that need answers considering their health stigma.
If we are to consider the discrete response of the Director of Election at the EC who was answering some questions in one of the radio stations, stated equivocally that people who tested positive are considered to be people who are sick and would not have time to think of registration. And if this is applicable in that context, it means that same statement applies in the students' case.
Hence the government should not offer the lives of our children for a political game and do the needful thing where it's applicable. ……….Signed………. The Chief Executive Officer Damak Sanitation Watch & Health (Mr. Akgri Mbabugri Daniel) 0248998510

Ghana's Coronavirus Case Hits 25,000 Ghana's Covid-19 cases have unexpectedly risen to 25,252 on Tuesday, 24th July, 2020 according to Ghana health service report. "The Covid-19 cases keep rising in Ghana because some people believe about the virus existents is low" DAMAKsanitation Watch and Health suggest. According to Ghana health service update report on Tuesday July 14th, 2020, 264 new infections of the Coronavirus has risen Ghana's Covid-19 cases to 25,252 as. The number of deaths count still stands at 139, while figures for recovered and discharged persons have increased to 21,391 with active cases of 3,716.
Ghana Health Service update report has it that, the Greater Accra Region remains the geographical area with the highest number of infections. The new confirmed cases in the leading Regions across the country according GHS case count is as follows: Greater Accra – 13,869 Ashanti Region – 5,277 Western Region – 2,189 Central Region – 1,110 DAMAKsanitation Watch and Health on this note is humbly urging all citizens of the republic of Ghana to adhere to the WHO Covid-19 protocols to help end the spread of the virus.
DAMAKsanitation Watch and Health: Your Health, We Care. DAMAKsanitationwatch+@gmail.com 0248998510

Coronavirus: Recklessness Will Cause Ghana Like U.S.A

Coronavirus: Recklessness Will Cause Ghana Like U.S.A
A stunning statement released by Damak Sanitation Watch and Health stated equivocally that Ghana will soon be like the United State of America where many Ghanaians will be affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic leading to more death toll in the country. The statement further explained that the country's health facilities will soon be full to uncontrollable capacity where health officials will run for cover and safety for the fear of contracting the virus.
Ghana, according to the statement, is behaving as the virus has magically vanished therefore no one cares of observing the safety protocols even government officials are blatantly violating what we all deem it a law to observe.
But Ministers and MPs are defiling the laws in the very eye of the president. The president in his expedition to control the spread of the virus has suddenly relinquished the fight of covid-19 to politics where the character of ''it's my son, my party, I cannot punish anyone but I can punish the rest of the citizens when they contradict the safety protocols''. This kind of authoritarian dictatorship is a recipe to widen the daily increase of covid-19 cases and we have started witnessing such occurrence on the 4th June 2020 when the country reordered it ever high covid-19 cases of over 700 in one day simplifies the level at which we are heading towards.
These outrageous numbers do not need any soothsayer to tell you the cause of the spreading numbers. Health officials have raised red flags of possible escalating of the virus when certain activities are allowed to take place and they were specifically concerned about the compilation of the voters' register by the Electoral Commission.
The violation of the safety protocols in the on-going voters' exercise does not look good for the country. Even when the New Patriotic Party had their parliamentary primaries it was an eyesore to watch. All these lapses are being happened in the glare of the president…innocent Ghanaians who accidentally violate the same safety protocols are languishing behind bars while politicians, MPs who constitute the laws violate the same without any punishment been meted out to them indicate how reckless, inhuman and hypocritical our leaders have become in the fight of the virus.
Mr. President, your soul-mark is to avert the spread of the virus, if indeed that's your main goal, extra punishment than the resignation of Hon. Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, Deputy minister of Trade is needed to serve as a deterrent to others and to further outline your preparedness to control the virus. ''You have allowed your-own people to undermine and violate the rules of covid-19 game, igniting public fear and panic''.
We are living in a country where our leaders value political positions more than human lives. His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, doesn't execute the lives of Ghanaians for political taste.
However, you are the hope of the people and they look up to you, if you fail, your people perish. Hence, exercise your constitutional mandate to render equal treatment to everyone irrespective of their political affiliation that comes against covid-19 laid down safety protocols.
''Note that you have been elected to serve the very interest of Ghanaians not party and do the needful thing by widening your scope of treatment to those it desires. …….Signed……..  Mr. Akgri Mbabugri CEO 0248998510 Barnabas Benjamin Asalimba Secretary 0243358644