{"id":159057,"date":"2015-10-12T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=159057"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:03:42","slug":"inmates-contribute-to-buy-medicine-prisons-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/inmates-contribute-to-buy-medicine-prisons-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmates contribute to buy medicine  &#8211; Prisons Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lack of drugs at the various infirmaries of prisons across the country,\u00a0is said to be impeding the provision of adequate healthcare to inmates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation has become dire that the health centres have had to resort to the benevolence of the inmates at the prisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3jhHkNcU4jMbUzkZu321l9wcveFC0hhZ&#8221;]Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Service Council, Reverend Steve Wengam, who disclosed this in an interview with <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> described the situation as an unfortunate and said it requires urgent attention from the state,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe truth is that we do not have drugs. It is so bad that inmates will have to contribute money and buy drugs like paracetamol; and that when you go to the infirmary and you are not a contributor, you cannot be given any drug,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile Rev. Wengam has made a case for the prisons to be provided with their own hospitals to meet the healthcare needs of inmates as well as prison officers and their dependents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He decried the absence of a hospital for the nation\u2019s prisons considering the number of inmates and prison officers that are currently in the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman of the Prisons Council further appealed for government and private sector support to facilitate the construction of a hospital facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have a vast land so we are calling for Public Private Partnership. We are appealing to government to help us to get a hospital as a matter of urgency.\u00a0With 15000 inmates, 5000 prisons officers excluding their dependents, yet with no hospital, that is a shame for Ghana,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has already announced plans of <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/08\/nhia-to-license-nsawam-prisons-infirmary\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">licensing the Nsawam<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>prisons<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to submit names of inmates that are on the scheme for the payment of claims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NHIA&#8217;s move seeks to support calls for <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/03\/02\/prisons-service-to-upgrade-ghanas-prisons-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">reforms proposed by the Ghana Prisons Service<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to improve the welfare needs of inmates to conform to United Nations standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of drugs at the various infirmaries of prisons across the country,\u00a0is said to be impeding the provision of adequate healthcare to inmates. 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