Damak sanitationhealth watch cleans Tafo Government Hospital

 Damak sanitationhealth watch cleans Tafo Government Hospital

Damak Sanitation Health watch cleaning exercise which was earmarked to come off today Saturday, 29th January, 2022, at the Tafo Government Hospital facility and its surroundings has recorded a massive turnout.

Today's clean up exercise forms part of the organization's Monthly Cleaning Exercise which is aim at supporting the government's efforts to promote good sanitation practices in the country.

The event which was organized by the organization, in it bid to officially rollout it yearly programs, the Director of Damak Sanitationhealth Watch, Mr. Mbabugri Akugri Daniel in an interview with the media after the exercise emphasized unequivocally that the prime motive of the organization is to educate, and inform the public on the need to keep the environment clean hence tasking the government to make available logistics amidst enforcing the sanitation bylaws where punitive sanctions are meted out to citizens who may defiled or dispose waste discriminately.

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s of the hospital, the Tafo Municipal, Dr. Kwaku Oteng Society, the Assemblyman for the Tafo-Nyieaso and the Tafo Homecoming Youth for their overwhelming support and contribution toward the success of the exercise.

On her part, the Tafo Minicipal Environmental Office representative, Madam Linda Owusu lauds Damak Sanitation Health Watch for the gesture urging all and sundry to do as much as they can to help the municipal sanitation drive as they aim at embarking on already-planned strategic measures to confront the fight of clean environment.

She went further to announce that the outfit is committed to ensure that every household has access to toilet facility. Added, the initiative, will enhance their efforts to promote one household, one toilet comapign drive in the municipality.

That notwithstanding, the founder and chairman of Dr. Kwaku Oteng Soiceity-Ghana, Mr. James Aurthor Darko said the steeps took by Damak Sanitation will go along way to serve as a tool of advice to the public so as to keep guard in keeping their communities clean...because cleanliness is next to Godness thus, Dr. Kwaku Oteng Society believes in taking part in cleaning the Tafo Government Hospital will improve the hospital sanitation situation.

The Assembly man for the Tafo-Nyieaso Electoral Area, Hon. Alhaji Bashiru Mohammed Gambo who leads the exercise stressed that sanitation is a huge challenge confronting the country and for Damak Sanitation to choose Tafo municipality,, is a laudable approach and urged the people of Tafo to be law abiding   citizens not to engage in conducts that may have the tendency of inflicting the community with waste.

WOMAN IN LABOUR CARRIED ON A WOODEN DOOR

 A very sad as residents of a farming community carry woman in labour on a wooden door to deliver.

By Akgri M. Daniel

The worrying situation when D

amak Sanitation and Health Watch sighted the woman in labour being carried on a wooden door from Abrokyire, a farming community in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region to a nearby clinic at Boinson for delivery.

A team subsequently paid a visit to the community which is about six and half miles from the health centre to gather details about the situation…Benjamin Barnabas Asalimba discovered that health and sanitation situation is a very challenging as well as road networking in the community.

DAMAK report has discovered residents has to carry pregnant women especially those in labour on wooden doors and other materials to seek health care. “It has become part of us, even though, it’s not easy and sometimes we lose our women on the way to nearby clinic”, resident lanented.

Mrs. Hagar Gyamfi was identified been carrying on the wooden door by men from the community as seeing in the picture on the way to the clinic, which they have to travel miles to access taxi, and hours more to get to the clinic due to bad road network.

Madam Gyamfi, speaking in local dialect “Sefwi”, recounted how the pain of contraction rendered her immobile, leaving her with no option than to rely on the services of the volunteers.

Mr. Gyamfi, the husband also narrated how every passing second of the journey was a nightmare, appealing to nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) to come to their aid with a chip compound and facilities like; emergency delivery, family planning, antenatal services and circumcision, basic consultation in the community.

Abrokyire community residents expressed much worried about the lack of basic social amenitties that they are far from comfort, disclosing it is not a norm for residents to carry patients on wooden doors or tied to motorbikes to be transported to health facilities, drinking from streams and rivers, open defecation.

Meanwhile, the woman successfully gave birth to a bouncy baby boy and has since been discharged.

DAMAK SANITATION AND HEALTH WATCH is calling on behalf of Abrokyire community on government attention to their municipality and improve their standard of living as well as individuals and NGO’s to come to their aid.

New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ In COVID-19 Deaths

 New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ In COVID-19 Deaths

BY Akgri Mbabugri Daniel

June 21, 2021 Updated.

A recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies has found that using antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to “large reductions” in COVID-19 deaths and its use could have a “significant impact” on the pandemic globally.

For the study (pdf), published on June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just over 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.

Using multiple methods of sequential analysis, the researchers concluded with a moderate level of confidence that the drug reduced the risk of death in COVID-19 patients by an average of 62 percent, at a 95 percent confidence interval of 0.19-0.79, in a sample of 2438 patients.

Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was found to be 2.3 percent among those treated with the drug, compared to 7.8 percent for those who were not, according to the review.

“Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease,” the authors wrote.

A health worker shows a box containing a bottle of Ivermectin as part of a study of the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. (Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images).

Since the start of the pandemic, both observational and randomized studies have evaluated ivermectin as a treatment for, and as prevention against, COVID-19 infection.

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“A review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin ‘demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy’ against COVID-19” the researchers wrote, referring to one recent review, which was based on data from both peer-reviewed studies and preprint manuscripts.

They cited another recent review that concluded that ivermectin reduced deaths by as much as 75 percent, while noting that neither the National Institutes of Health in the United States nor the World Health Organization (WHO) have recommended the use of ivermectin outside clinical trials for use in the fight against COVID-19.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a note on “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19,” warns that it has received “multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.”

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“Using any treatment for COVID-19 that’s not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm,” the FDA said in the note, adding that it has not reviewed data to support the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients.

The WHO said in March that “the current evidence on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients is inconclusive” and that, until more data becomes available, the agency recommends that “the drug only be used within clinical trials.”

The authors of the ivermectin efficacy study argued, however, that the drug has an “established safety profile through decades of use” and “could play a critical role in suppressing or even ending the SARS-CoV2 pandemic.”

“The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally,” they argued in the study abstract.

The authors noted in their publication that all the studies on which they based their conclusions have been peer-reviewed.

Source: The Epoch Times online.

Damak Sanitation Watch Health 2021 Project to be executed =Call For Support of our 2021 Project= (Deprived Community Sexual Reproductive and Covid-19 Capacity Enhancement Campaign: Project period: three (3) months).

 

Damak Sanitation Watch DamakSanitationHealthWatch,

2021 Project to be executed =Call For Support of our 2021 Project= (Deprived Community Sexual Reproductive and Covid-19 Capacity Enhancement Campaign: Project period: three (3) months) “An Innovative Approach to end Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenges in Deprived Communities and Organized Community Covid-19 Awareness campaign”. 

DAMAK Sanitation Watch and Health…is a Non-Governmental Organization that seeks to resolve environmental challenges through culture, tradition, education and economic approaches in Ghana, especially in deprived communities using new innovative mechanisms in our quest to help find accessible and long-teem health related solutions to society. 

In Ghana, tradition has compelled women and girls living in deprived communities to endure pre-marital sex, early marriage and pregnancy including liberal attitudes. Teens in several communities in the Northern part of Ghana are being forced into early marriage engaging in sexual intercourse without adequate knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and with limited access to appropriate sexual guidance. Ghana also shows negative social and economic repercussions: 

The most highly publicized that stems from lack of educational opportunities, tradition and culture has forced young women to leave school. Females in Ghana represent 51.2 per cent of the entire population of 30 million, whereas adolescents represent 22.4 per cent of the total population according to the 2010 population census of Ghana. There have been steady increases in adolescent pregnancies in the Northern region of Ghana from 2014 to 2016 according to the annual report presented by the Ghana Health Service in 2016. In 2014, adolescent pregnancies stood at 10.4 per cent, in 2015, a slight increase to 10.7 per cent and 10.9 per cent in 2016, indicating that more and more adolescents risk being subjected to maternal death, delivery complications, premature births and cepha. 

In Ghana it is adolescents who face the highest risks of pregnancy-related mortality, delivery complications, and premature births or low-birth weight babies. Teenage pregnancy in Ghana also has negative social and economic repercussions The most highly publicized that stems from lack of educational opportunities, a situation which forces young women to leave school. Females represent 51.2 per cent of the entire population of 25 million, whereas adolescents represent 22.4 per cent of the total population according to the 2010 population census of Ghana. Women and Girls are being forced or lured into unprepared sex as a result of tradition, culture and economic challenges, where parents force adolescent girls into marriage, exposing them to early sex and premature birth…

Damak Sanitation Watch and Health, shall engage traditional authorities in the following six (6) deprived communities in the Northern Region:Salaga, Gusgu, Garu, Bimbilla, Nakpeduri and Banda. 

We shall organize workshops to educate opinion leaders who kowtow to their tradition and culture, we shall employ health experts to counsel community elders on why girls should not be forced into early marriage and the serious implications associated with premature sex and reproductive crisis. 

Health experts’ will teach young girls the skills of sex and the need to protect themselves, communicate about general sexuality and sexual health. Throughout their lives, people communicate with parents, friends and intimate partners about sexuality. Learning to freely discuss contraception and condoms as well as activities they are not ready for, protecting young people’s health throughout their lives, and this will be done in three (3) months. Workshop-Day One (Sexual Reproductive Education). 

The organization, shall also organize two day basic sexual and reproductive health preventive measures to women and girls age 15-20 in each community. We shall employ health experts, educationists to take them through the risks of early marriage, pre-mature sexual intercourse and early child-birth, social interaction and the free will to discuss their sex issues with parents and health professionals. Day-Two (Covid-19 Awareness Campaign) On the day two, we shall engage community members in a public forum on Covid-19 awareness campaign, where our health experts will educate members on the spread of the virus and how to observe our safety protocols. 

The platform will be created for questioners relating to the Covid-19 spread and fear associated with it. We shall introduce a free hot line where people living in the deprived communities can call health experts for Covid-19 updates on a daily basis. After the two day workshops, we shall assign Sexual Reproductive Health and Covid-19 Ambassadors in each community& equip them with mobile phones to report sexual harassments, forced marriage and Covid-19- related issues through a WhatsApp platform. 

The platform shall include: doctors, educationists, psychologies, religious leaders (pastors) to counsel girls on why they should observe and resist from unhealthy sexual intercourse, early marriage and update them with accurate information about the Coronavirus. We will collaborate with the various district health directories, where girls with sexual abuse and premature birth implications and signs of Covid-19 symptoms to report are being taken care of. 

We shall organize a Covid-19 training workshop to educate community members on hand washing, the correct wearing of a face mask, how to observe social distancing and how to eat nutritious food to boost their immune system. After the workshop, PPEs, face mask, alcohol based-hand sanitizers, condoms, and contraceptives will be given out to girls and community members. We shall involve the ambassadors every three (3) months in sequential sexual and reproductive health forums; sensitization or capacity building training will take place in each of the 5 communities to brainstorm and create awareness on Covid-19 pandemic, whereas an annual conference be held for all ambassadors in the six (6) communities every year to learn, socialize and build a physical network with different people and tribes. 

Damak Santation Watch and Health, after donating alcohol based-hand sanitizers to Kumasi children Orphanage home, the Kumasi Children hospital and the Ghana Prison Services-Kumasi head officer in our capacity to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the region and also construct water project at Konkole is inspired with an objective to create a WatsApp platform containing sexual reproductive health tips, updates and guidelines of Covid-19 information to empower adolescent girls in deprived communities in Ghana to eradicate sexual implications and to prevent future spread of covid-19. 

Contact Director, Mr. Daniel Mbabugri Akgri on: 024 899 8510

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Director: Damak Sanitation Urged Public to Observe Covid-19 Safety protocols as they celebrate Xmas

Your Health, We CarDirector: Damak Sanitation Urged Public to Observe Covid-19 Safety protocols as they celebrate Xmas

BENJAMIN BANANAS ASALIMBA Health 0

 In our quest to celebrate the Christmas, the Director of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health, Mr. Daniel Mbabugri  Akgri has admonished the public to observe the safety protocols of the novel coronavirus since the virus is still not done with humanity and also do away with indiscriminate disposal of waste during the Xmas.

As we celebrate yet another season of greetings and Thanksgiving according to the Christian Calendar of 25th December, it’s our core believe that the historic calendar is to remember the death of Christ and ask for his mercy forgiveness.

And to take a stock of your lives over the year to whether  expectations were met or not, and to re-strategies yurself .

 

However, Damak Sanitation Watch and Health wish to use this Yuletide to express our profound gratitude to our readers, sponsors both international and national especially the family of Directhelp Support Project, Mr. Pierre P. Petitjean, workers of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health, and to the media who were the enterprising force of our activities ensuring that the world gives attention to us…we say thank you all.

 

Mr. Daniel Mbabugri Akgri believed the tremendous milestone wouldn’t have been achieved without the efforts and support of the above-mentioned bodies. ” we will continue to work with you as we started in the years ahead of us”.

 

He thus urged and wished all and sundry happy Christmas and affluent new year, tasking each and every one to focus on new goals and put the past behind.

He went further to inform the public to take notice of indiscriminate disposal of waste as they observe the Christmas in a manner that would not bring an outbreak after the holidays.

#I wish you once again Happy Xmas.

 

Daniel Mbabugri Akari

Director Damak Sanitation Watch and Health

Mob: 0248998510

 

Esaase And Akom Communities Battles With Sanitation Issues…As Assemblyman Intensifies Efforts To Fix Situation.

BENJAMIN BANANAS ASALIMBA Health 0

 

Esaase And

Residents of Esaase and Akom communities under Denase Eletoral Area in the Afigya Kwabre East Distract are in battle with sanitation issues but the Assembly man of the area has intensified efforts to confront the situation before it get out of control.
The Assembly man, Mr Obed Kwarteng stressed that currently Esaase old buller has been cleared and a container to collect subsequent waste is now a problematic. However, he’s still working assiduously to resolve the Akom sanitation issue as well.

The two communities are predominantly farming communities where most of them are peasant farmers. Development in the two communities are not improve of which the Assembly man expressed worry about the nature of road network as a situation confronts farming activities.

Mr. Kwarteng told Damak Sanitation Watch and Health Team when they visited the two communities that earl sex and it precautions are normal even though few cases of teenage pregnancies were recorded at the time Junior High Students were about to write their finally year exams. But when the team contact some of the residents especially females in the Esaase community, the expressed worry about the conduct of young girls averred that the situation, when not handle with care will taint the image of the community. ‘Surprisingly, they say, some parents are even luring their wards to engage in an indecent dress for reasons best known to them alone’’.

That notwithstanding, Mr. Obed Kwarteng contended further that his prime objective as an assembly man, is to facilitate an excellent, united administrative work to ensure the two communities can also have a fair share of the national cake. Hence, he called on residents to conduct themselves in a manner that will not bred violence. He also urged politicians to be guarded with their campaign languages to promote peace before, during and after the December 7 presidential and parliamentary polls.

 

DAMAK SANITATION WATCH AND HEALTH DONATE CLOTHES AND FOOD TO SEVEN NEEDY CHILDREN AT NWINESO NO.1

 DAMAK SANITATION WATCH AND HEALTH DONATE CLOTHES AND FOOD TO SEVEN NEEDY CHILDREN AT NWINESO NO.1

In response to our earlier publication about a mother of 8 whose father is dead in Nwineso No. 1, a suburb of Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region, the outfit- Damak Sanitation Watch and Health has donated 100 pieces of clothing, 25kg bag of rice, oil, biscuit tomato paste and sandals and registered them into the Ghana Health Insurance Scheme to unbridle the burden of Madam Martha Daakuwuah from feeding, clothing and health care cost.

Receiving the items on behalf of Madam Martha were; the chief of the community, Nana Kwame Dapaah, the assemblyman, Mr. Kwame Atinka, and unit committee chairman, Mr. Fatao Seidu.

Nana Kwame Dapaah thanked Damak Sanitation Watch and Health for the kind gesture and as the Over Twist will always ask for more, appealed to individual benevolent, non-governmental organizations to also come to the aid of other needy children whose parents are dead in the community.

Nana Kwame

Dappah, the Assemblyman and unit committee chairman jointly expressed lengthily on the community challenges as; health care, water, toilet facility and more importantly the uncompleted clinic which has started by the community elders. The clinic is at the lintel level they confirmed, when completed, will save pregnant women who lost their lives during childbirth. ''People in the community have to walk 8 miles to access health care coupled with the bad road network and appeal to civil society organizations, NGOs and other corporate bodies to help them complete the clinic to enable them to have access to health service''.

The Chief Executive Officer of Damak Sanitation Watch and health, Mr. Daniel Mbabugri Akgri thanked the sponsors of the project…Ruth Petitjean-Plattner, an author and columnist from Switzerland for the love and concern she shown to Madam Martha and her children and the entire community. Added, the concerns and problems of needy children living in deprived communities as well as health, sanitation and water challenges, the outfit will continue in its resolving role in our quest to support them. He however assured elders of the community that the outfit will communicate with our sponsors about their challenges especially the community water system and the uncompleted clinic projects. He advised Madam Martha as a matter of health precautions, and to take good care of the children.

GOV'T SHOULD NOT BE ADAMANT ON HEALTH TRAINEE STUDENTS

 DAMAK SANITATION WATCH & HEALTH

PRESS RELEASE

GOV'T SHOULD NOT BE ADAMANT ON HEALTH TRAINEE STUDENTS

The government delay in responding to the Health Trainee students over their unpaid three years allowances is a daring path to implicate health implications in the country in future. The trainee students in all the hygiene health institutions across the country besieged the Health Ministry barley three weeks ago demanding their thirty months allowances met with a twist and turn response from the Ministry, is a situation that may ensue future setbacks.

The situation is deeply affecting academic work since 2017; their allowances are still locked in the coffers of the ministry for reasons best known to them alone.

Government has released a whopping sum of Ghc232 million to be disbursed to all Allied Hygiene Health Training Institutions. And out of the Ghc232 million, each student is supposed to be given Ghc12, 000 for the 30-months accumulated arrears. According to sources, Ghc232 million is said to be released annually to these institutions.

The outfit of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health has since over the years worked closely toward ensuring that health-related issues are properly addressed thus, deem it a privilege considering our track record to add our candy voice to the matter by drawing the attention of the government and the Ministry of Health, and the Sanitation Ministry that, their intention to making Ghana the cleanness city in Africa cannot be achieved without the inclusion of the Hygiene Health students. These very institutions when proper attention is not given to them, the probability of losing the fight are 80% because they represent the majority workforce in the sanitation and hygiene sector.

Having considered the level at which their allowances are being delayed, and the strange development or explanation given to them without a definite time frame for the money to be paid is raising possible questions of where is the money that has been allocated for the students.

''Government, considering the long silence over the allowance is justifiable to say that the Ghc232 million went into wrong hands or the government is possibly not going to release the money to the students''. The field these students have chosen is critical to national development and their concerns and grievances should be apprehended by the government.

A nation that commits enough resources into health institutions is building a vibrant and healthy economy. However, we want to use this medium to prompt the government that its efforts to make the nation clean and green, should cogently rest on their shoulders financially. People who are being appointed to occupy such positions seem to be disappointing the president and its time the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to wake up from his slumber and efficiently enforce the laws on his officials to work for the betterment of Mother Ghana.

 Signed......

Chief Executive Officer

Damak Sanitation Watch and Health

Mr. Akgri Daniel Mbabugri

Tel:0248998510

KUKUA AKETEBO RESIDENTS SHARE STREAM WATER WITH ANIMALS

 

 

Residents of Kukua Aketebo in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region have expressed worries over the lack of portable drinking water in the area. The problem according to residents has compelled them to compete with animals in a stream river as a livelihood source of water.

 

The situation to some larger extent has brought health implications to residents in the community. It's so insulting that a community of municipal status; people still resort to stream water as their source of survival.

 

''We have been using the stream water with the animals for decades now because we use the stream water to drink, cook, and wash among other house duties because we have no choice''. They lamented.

It is sad to note that human beings still struggle to have access to potable water in this era of Covid-19 pandemic when water is pivotal in the fight of the novel COVID-19.

Some of the residents registered their grievances with the Damak Sanitation Watch and Health in the community appealing to the government of Ghana and non-governmental organizations to come to their aid by providing them with portable drinking water.

 

The situation is so albatross that the assemblyman of the community, John Addo Benkoe said to have done nothing. He contended that it's  affecting the community where health risks are so high because the stream water is daily populated by the animals and this has to be a problem confronting the development of the community. Hence, he appealed passionately to the government, the Member of Parliament for the area and the Municipal Chief Executive to provide a drilling borehole to help reduce health challenges among residents.

Speaking to DAMAK Sanitation Watch and Health when the team visited the community, John Addo Benkoe the assemblyman revealed that they have not benefited from any COVID-19 support when the government was distributing the Covid-19 incentives including the free water supply by president Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo during the lockdown period.

 

Having considered the magnitude and trauma residents went through, we (DAMAK Sanitation Watch and Health deem it a privilege to use this opportunity on behalf of the people of the Kukua community appealing to the government of Ghana, NGO's, MP for Suhum constituency, Hon. Frederick Opare Ansah and the Suhum municipal chief executive officer Margaret Darko stepped into the matter to provide potable water to the community.

 

 

SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION TASKFORCE INAUGURATED

 The Chief Executive officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi has officially inaugurates a team of sanitation personnel called “Clean and Green Team” formed by assemblymen and members of the various unit committees of Subin sub-metro to sort solutions to the day to day sanitation challenges within the community and beyond.

Subin sub-metro is said to be the first to institute a sanitation team among the ten sub-metros within the Kumasi Metropolis. The purpose of the formation of the environmental sanitation team is to complement KMA’s efforts as in curbing and keeping the Metropolis Clean and Green.

Persons (assembly members, unit committee members, and self-giving individuals) constituting the team are from the existing nine electoral areas in the sub-metro and will be performing in collaboration with the respective Town councils and unit committees under the supervision of the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit of the assembly.

Their role is to clean all streets within the sub-metro and promote the greening of all areas so as to help restore the lost glory “Garden City” of Kumasi.The team during the inauguration was equipped with adequate number of logistics in the likes of rakes, wheelbarrows, shovel, gloves, protective clothing and boots among others.

Addressing the occasion, the Mayor for the Metropolis, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi underscored how inability the assembly has been towards ensuring that all the needed policies are effected to improve upon the sanitary condition of the city. According to Mr. Osei Assibbey, the assembly is seeking logistic supports from cooperate bodies and institutions such as MTN, Zoomlion, Stanbic Bank, VIP, NIB plus a host of Non-Governmental Organisations since the implementation of the “Operation Keep Kumasi Clean and Green” policy.

The mayor who is much inclined to investment said he is committed towards making the Metropolis attractive to foreign investors and tourists owing to the fact that they (tourists and foreign investors) consider the sanitary condition of every country before visiting to embark on an investment.

He noted that the number of tourists that visit the Metropolis on daily basis he underlined gives credence to the fact that the city under his watch is witnessing an improved sanitary condition.

He urged the team to give out their best and report individuals sighted disposing refuse at unapproved areas for the necessary disciplinary action.

DAMAK sanitation watch and health on this note is appealing on the chief executive officer of the Kumasi Metropolis to provide and stationed more dustbins at all joint within the Metropolis to enhance easy disposals in order to fulfill the purpose of the " Operation Keep Kumasi Clean and Green".

By Akgri M. Daniel

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

Enact Law To Prosecute People Building On Waterways

Enact Law To Prosecute People Building On Waterways…Damak Sanitation Watch & Health

It is of no doubt that flooding in Ghana has become a perennial problem that seeks to deal with people who engineer or attribute to such occurrences characterized with utter lawlessness on the part of the citizenry.
The behaviour of Ghanaians toward confronting flooding over the years seems to depart from the deal situation. We have come to a point where we have to apply legal actions and say 'enough is enough' and enact a law to prosecute people who erect buildings in an unapproved waterway or discriminately disposed waste illegally. Rains have become a death trap for people living in slump areas and waterways in the country-anytime there is a perennial downpour due to the overload drainage systems and bad practices by inhabitants. These observations according to the Director of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health, Mr. Akgri Mbabugri Daniel, Ghana by now should have learnt some key lessons from the June 3rd disaster which claimed many lives and provide enough structural provisions to confront future occurrence.
As a country aiming at transforming Ghana to the status of cleanness city in Africa, recommendations of the demolition of illegally erected buildings in water areas is a total failure and late approach by cities authorities to solve the problem of flood. The flooding situation requires a deeper stakeholder consultation to identify the chief objective to stop inhabitants from building in an unapproved waterway. But our case as a country is to wait for them to build and when there is flooding we go around and demolished, is a sign of leadership weakness and failure. The attitude, according to Mr. Mbabugri Akgri, cities authorities, engineers, Chiefs and the security apparatus must be blamed for failing to constitute concrete policies that would have to safeguard the building of houses and structures that prevent the free flow of water. The outfit has observed that there is a lack of a coordinated effort between the state governments and the traditional authorities to regulate the release of lands to people. If the government is bent on resolving flooding issues in the country, the government has to collaborate with the landholders to drive every would-be builder in unapproved water areas. It is of keen interest to note that, ending perennial flooding in the country has to do with self-commitment and the can-do spirit that we all need as a country not blame games. We have to contribute collectively especially chiefs who are the landholders should exercise their custodian rights to desist from releasing lands situated in water areas for builders.
That said, the government on it part should provide enough financial support for the waste management companies for them to employ more waste workers and logistics to ensure gutters and cities are frequently clean. If this is not seriously ironed from the angle of the chiefs and government, the forward march to end flooding will not be materialized. ''There is a saying that there are no smokes without fire'', hence our fight to end flooding should not be centered on demolishing of buildings, but stakeholder consultations with the landholders to stop releasing lands to builders. By Ben Barnes Asalemba

GHANA FLOUTING WHO CORONAVIRUS PROTOCOL

GHANA FLOUTING WHO CORONAVIRUS PROTOCOL
Ben Barnabsa Asalimba/Akgri Mbabugri Daniel
As the world intensely facilitating hard-headed measures including protocol observations to prevent the vast spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Ghana seems to be engaging in violation of the World Health Organisation covid-19 protocols by allowing some government institutions to organise public functions and such institution is the Ghana National Theatre at Accra.
This bizarrely decision or indecision by government of Ghana is given suspicion of how government stand to lose the fight to uncontrolled social-distances, wearing of protective masks and the will believe of the virus associated with the people. Substantially, a country that ultimately bent in tackling the virus would not in any diverse ways allowed concert or better still, dancing performance at the auspices of no masks and no social-distances observations indicate how reckless we are as a nation toward confronting the spread of the virus.
On Friday May 6, 2020, three groups; the Ghana National Theatre…the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Dance Company and Drama Group Abibigromma, the Dance Department of the University of Ghana (UG), the Choir of UG, Three Idiots and Young Ashes, among others organised a traditional dance and cultural performance in honour of the late Emeritus Prof. Nketia. The world even though, is in struggling times with the presents of covid-19 and such events have been restricted globally and Ghana is no exception.
Performers and dancers on the event were exposed themselves of possibly contacting or transporting the virus to others because they were not observing the social-distances or were either masked. The entire event and how it was coordinated, was a sort of exposing mostly the workers and staff of the outfit in danger. The Executive Director of the National Theatre of Ghana, Mrs Amy Appiah Frimpong, in our obsession, has thrown overboard the president and WHO directives into the gutters and allowed such event to take place questioning her integrity as head of the institution. This, according to the Executive Director of Damak Sanitation Watch and Health can say that government is gradually losing the fight of covid-19 to complacency.
That notwithstanding, hot pots regions in the country are violating all the necessary protocols raising eye brows of possible increase of cases of the covid-19.Most market places, transport station, shopping malls even government commercial buses are not observing the social distance.
‘I personally intercepted a branded government commercial bus’’, ‘’Ayalolo bus’’ in Kumasi where the bus was full to it normal capacity’’, indicate low we are trying to kowtow to the fight of the virus as a nation.
The organisation…Damak Sanitation Watch and Health have, in our endeavors see the need for government led by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to as a matter of national interest constitute yet, another strategic measures not to relent on his preparedness to confront the increasing spread of virus…though the country have recorded 6,617 positive cases, close to 1,978 recovery and 31 death so far and this does not sound good for complacency

MINISTER HAS FAILED THE PRESIDENT

DAMAK SANITATION WATCH AND HEALTH PRESS RELEASE 22th May, 2020 ASHANTI REGIONAL MINISTER HAS FAILED THE PRESIDENT IN THE FIGHT OF COVID-19 Damak Sanitation Watch and Health can say with the authority that the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Simon Osei Mensah has woefully failed the president in the fight of the coronavirus in the region. Per the outfit ‘’Community Sanitation Surveillance’’, the Minister who represents the president in the region should have been more contextual in his endeavors to propagate the president’s policy toward confronting the novel coronavirus by enforcing the directives and plans facilitated by the president to benefit the citizenry.
The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo have in his numerous addresses to the people of Ghana announced the free supply of water, food, electricity subsidy in his quest to reduce utility bills on the ordinary Ghanaian during the partial lockdown and up to date, most communities since the announcement was made, have not received a single drop of water from the regional directory indicate how fail the regional minister has suddenly become in his expedition of leading the people in the region. Damak Sanitation has it that communities that are not connected to the Ghana Water company limited rely on private water companies and are still engaging the private companies despite the president announcement to transport water to them… prior to our checks in some of the MMDCEs in the region, no single gallon of water is sent to these communities.
The world is in difficult times and Ghana is not exceptional and we expect every directives and plans being outlined by the president are extremely executed by the frontiers in the various regions. Fears are gradually swallowing the people of Ashanti Region especially in the Obuasi Municipal following the alarming number of cases. We can’t blame human failure on existence of the virus but can blame human resources failure toward confronting it. And it seems the region is losing grounds to constitute definite approach in fighting the virus.
Most residents complain bitter of not having access to the free supply of water and that of the electricity subsidy of which the regional minister and his team should have made persistent regional surveillance to ensure the president directive are properly facilitated, but that did not happen signifies our zeal to confronting government policies as leaders. The outfit have made thoroughly community engagement on the impact of covid-19 and it associated challenges confronting the people and the most topical issues that came up was the president free supply of water and the electricity subsidy tells you how the people are much concern about the initiative.
Damak sanitation watch is challenging the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Simon Osei Mensah to point out a single community in the region where people doly enjoying president freely water supply accept the electricity since 29th March, 2020 during president third nation's address on covid-19. We therefore deem it appropriate to acknowledge the president for taken such laudable steeps to release the burden of domestic bills on the ordinary Ghanaians…but we differ to state that, his team will fail him if he did not constitute a concrete measures to cement his grounds he will have himself to be blamed. Hence calling on him to further restrategies his forward march in supporting the vulnerable ones and remote communities who cannot afford to buy water, alcohol based hand sanitizers to enable them observe the covid-19 protocols. Thank you. ....Signed... Akgri M. Daniel ( CEO) DAMAK sanitation watch and health Tel. 0248998510

Ghna's covid-19 case count hits 6,096 with 31 death

Ghana’s Covid-19 case count rises to 6,096 with 1, 773 recoveries and the dead 31. The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Ghana still increases, even though the number of the recovery is encouraging, yet the fear about the virus remains the same in people's mind. The latest figures by the Ghana Health Service indicates 1,773 recoveries from the virus, representing an increase of 19 from the last update.
The number of deaths remain at 31 out of 6,096 confirmed cases recorded as at the time story was filled. DAMAK sanitation watch & Health presents below the Regional Breakdown of Ghana's covid-19 cases *Greater Accra Region – 4,536 *Ashanti Region – 888 *Central Region – 256 *Western Region – 111 *Eastern Region – 100 *Western North Region – 57 *Volta Region – 41 *Northern Region – 31 *Oti Region – 26 *Upper East Region – 26 *Savannah Region – 0 *Ahafo Region – 0 *Bono East Region – 0

 DAMAK Sanitation Watch and Health continues to advise the general public to observe the WHO sanctioned safety protocols against Covid-19 pandemic. By Akgri M. Daniel

Ghana's case count hits 4,263

Covid-19, Ghana's case count hits 4,263 with 22 death Ghana confirmed corona virus case has increased by 251 with 4 more death adding to total death of 22 with 378 recoveries.
Ghana has recorded 251 more cases of Covid-19 leading the total case count to 4,263, the Ghana Health Service report says. On its Covid-19 webpage, the Service also said four more people have died from the disease, taking the death toll to 22. However, 55 more people have recovered from the disease, taking that case count to 378. The regional case counts indicate that Greater Accra, Central and Ashanti have recorded new cases.
According to the GHS report on the 3,436 cases as of May 8, Greater Accra which remains Ghana epicentre now has 3,641 cases, an increase of 205. Ashanti has 42 new cases making the count there to 252 while the Central region recorded four new cases, taking its tally to 62.
Eastern region still has 96 cases just as Western North 56, Western 35, Volta 32, Upper East 26, Oti 24, Upper West 20, Northern 16, North East 2 and Bono one. Although, Ahafo, Bono East and Savannah have yet to record any cases, residents in these areas are living in fear. By Akgri M. Daniel

Coronavirus case rises to 3,091 with 18 death and 372 more cases

Ghana’s coronavirus case count rises to 3,091 with 303 recoveries and 18 death Ghana has recorded 372 more novel Coronavirus cases, making the total case count 3,091, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced.
According to the GHS, nine more patients have recovered and discharged making the total number of recoveries 303 as at 7th May, 2020. The death toll, according to the GHS update is still 18.
Ghana Health Service update report says, a total of 137,924 tests have been done so far. Ghana Health Service through the minister of information, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah had given the regional breakdown statistics as; The Bono region becomes the latest of the 16 regions to record its first case.
The Savannah, Ahafo and Bono East remain the only regions in Ghana yet to record a case. Greater Accra Region – 2,579 Ashanti Region – 165 Eastern Region – 95 Western North Region – 56 Central Region – 50 Western Region – 32 Volta Region – 30 Upper East Region – 26 Oti Region – 23 Upper West Region – 19 Northern Region – 13 North East Region – 2 Bono Region – 1 Savannah Region – 0 Ahafo Region – 0 Bono East Region – 0 By Akgri M. Daniel