In 2017, a number of senior high schools in the Eastern Region reported a number of meningitis-related incidents which led to a few deaths and the hospitalisation of several others.

[contextly_sidebar id=”hSV26rwBV0AhSCeqhfVYzc2c75MLMWvL”]50 students of the Asamankese Senior High School in the West Akim District were also quarantined for several days following suspected meningitis infections.

Joseph Tetteh, in an interview with Citi News as schools in the Region reopened, pleaded with school authorities not to try to treat the illness they are not familiar with.

“We are still sad about the student who died at Sectech and may God keep his soul. As school reopens this week I want to caution all school heads and their subordinates not to try to treat or manage sickness and diseases they are not familiar with at the schools,” he said.

“We have hospitals and other health facilities around who are well equipped and better resourced with equipment and have qualified human capacity to well manage every health issue, we do not want school authorities to wait and unnecessarily delay health-related cases in schools to aggravate the situation to create problems for health workers so am advising all heads to report promptly and timely all suspected cases to the hospitals for immediate attention and intervention.”

The deputy minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Asesewa in Upper Manya Krobo was very much optimistic this new academic year will be free from the health incidents recorded last year.

“After the incidents recorded last year in our Senior High Schools the Regional Coordinating Council has engaged the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in series of stakeholder meetings, a number of recommendations were tabled and discussed extensively and the recommendations made will be implemented and enforced in all the schools in the Region so am very confident we will not see what happened in our Senior High Schools last year again,” he added

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In an interview with Citi News, the Deputy Minister bemoaned the lack of men’s involvement in the fight against breast cancer.

[contextly_sidebar id=”uXEFRsTgVQyXJ0WcFKKPJTaENWnuyeBo”]”…I believe now is the time to take the bull by its horn. breast cancer is not a good thing and we must help our mothers, sisters, aunties and wives because if one member of the family becomes affected one way or the other it affects others also in the family.”

The Deputy Minister, focusing on the important role women play in the society, also called for a change of mind and attitude towards women diagnosed with breast cancer.

“Some women are even breadwinners for both their nuclear and extended families and it is very disheartening to hear and see some men rejecting, divorcing and pushing them to early grave because they have just been diagnosed with breast cancer.”

Mr. Tetteh thus called on all men to be responsible and desist from abusing women with breast cancer.

“I am using this opportunity to rally all men to stand by their wives, sisters, mothers and other relatives who are facing breast cancer problems, breast cancer survivors deserve extra care, treatment and attention from their husbands, partners and family members.”

“…on the 14th of October, I want all men in the Eastern Region and outside the region to find time off their busy schedules and join the (BCI WALK FOR THE CURE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS CREATION WALK) at Jackson Park. I will be there and I have arranged for a bus to transport any individual from Krobo Land who wants to join the awareness creation walk” he noted.

The event, which is yearly organized under the leadership of Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe, CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals, will be held on October 14 this year, at the Koforidua Jackson’s Park.

Speaking at the official launching of this year’s BCI WALK FOR THE CURE, the Busumbruhene of the New Juaben Traditional Council, Nana Bugye Asante, speaking on behalf of the Traditional Council, pledged to join the walk to create awareness and help save lives.
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They say that the blast happened in a street with many bars and night spots.

Witnesses say that the explosion was caused by a bomb in a car in the predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari. The blast could be heard from several miles away.

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out attacks in Kano state and other areas of northern Nigeria.

“At about 22:00 (21:00 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered a suicide bomber… Five people, including the bomber, were killed,” Kano Police Commissioner Adelere Shinaba said.

He said that the victims were “three men and a girl of about 12”.

The BBC’s Will Ross in Nigeria says that Sunday’s blast was so powerful that all that remains of the car is its engine.

Kano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.

In January 2012, about 150 people died there in a series of co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram.

The group is fighting to overthrow the Nigeria government and create an Islamic state.

The bombing comes as the Nigerian authorities continue the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

The abducted schoolgirls, who include Christians and Muslims, were seized on 14 April in the north-east Nigerian town of Chibok in Borno state.

Boko Haram released a video last week showing more than 100 of the girls and offering an exchange for prisoners.

African leaders meeting in Paris at the weekend agreed to wage “war” on Boko Haram, pledging to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.

French President Francois Hollande called Boko Haram a “major threat to West and Central Africa”, and said it had links with al-Qaeda’s North-African arm and “other terrorist organisations”.

The unrest in Nigeria has not just been confined to the north.

Earlier this month a car bomb in the capital Abuja killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more.

The explosion happened close to a bus station where at least 70 people died in a bomb blast on 14 April.

Source: BBC

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