They have been accused of, among other impediments, keeping in their prayer camps and shrines people suffering from the diseases and denying them of or delaying their access to better, orthodox treatment.

Though other factors like migration and misinformation on the ailments have been cited for the soaring cases, the actions of the faith-based healers in the fishing community has been ranked a key factor.

The revelations were made over the week by Dr. Caesar Atuiyere, the President of AMICUS ONLUS, a non-governmental organisation that owns the Baobab Medical Centre at Biriwa, at a free medical screening for the community.

Citing Africans’ known spirituality as the reason, Dr. Atuiyere said, “The African way of seeing things is that the human being is not just a body; Western medicine sees the human as a body. We see the human being as body and spirit, but what tends to happen is when people are sick, instead of curing both body and spirit, sometimes they look for only spiritual solutions to the detriment of the body, and when things are really bad they come to us at the clinic”.

On his part, the Administrator of the Baobab Medical Centre, Isaac Baiden, added that, the opinion leaders of the community have not also helped in fighting the communicable diseases as the organization of public education is usually frustrating due to the chieftaincy disputes at Biriwa, saying, “At times you don’t even know whom to talk to; you go to this person and they don’t seem to have any interest in it”.

Commenting on the challenges posed by faith-based healers, Mr. Baiden noted that, the religious leaders do not collaborate with the medical centre in fighting the diseases because they appear to think orthodox healing is a threat to their spiritual method that serves as their source of income.

However, Mr. Baiden indicated that, it is ironic that some of the religious leaders quickly come to the Centre when they are unwell, revealing that, “Even with headaches, those people will seek treatment, and even when they come, they want to have preferential treatment.”

The Baobab Medical Centre at Biriwa was established in 2005, and has since cured over three hundred thousand people, mainly combining treatment with health awareness campaigns on preventive measures, free screening and community mobile health assistance in nearby villages.

Biriwa, lying along the Accra-Cape Coast highway, has a population of about ten thousand people, who are mostly fisher folks, and the inhabitants are a combination of indigenes, workers in the formal sector, and migrants from other fishing communities from the Western Region and other places.

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By: Joseph Ackon-Mensah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Anyone wishing to buy the 18 carat gold device as a present for the third in line to the throne will need deep pockets as it is being retailed at an incredible £1 MILLION.

The clipper, believed to be the most expensive of its kind in the world. features 350 individual diamonds each valued at over £2,000.

The nail file – which is designed for children – features diamond dust instead of the usual emery abrasive.

The company, Stylfile, was founded by Tom Pellereau, winner of ITV’s Apprentice programme in 2011 and is backed by the Lord Sugar himself.

Craftsmen have spent nearly 10 weeks designing and developing the luxurious nail set to commemorate the birthday of the third in line to the throne.

A less luxurious version of the nail set set f non-royals, the Nipper Clipper, is available at a bargain £9.99.

Pellereau said: “Royalty or not, cutting babies’ nails is a tricky task, that all parents need a solution to.

“However, only the best will do for the third in line to the throne so we went back to the drawing board to transform the Nipper Clipper into a nail clipper that really is fit for Prince.  We hope that this will make nail cutting much less of a core!”

Pellereau, who has a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering with Innovation and Design, was inspired by watching his sister file her nails “the old fashioned way.”

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Source: Mirror

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