Local dances can increase earnings in tourism- Quashigah

Ho, Aug 5, GNA- Major Courage Quashigah (rtd), Minister of Health has observed that the country's dance forms could boost earnings from tourism if purposefully packaged. He stressed that Ghana should have ruled the world of tourism earnings with the splendour of its dance forms.

Major Quashigah made the observation during the opening ceremony of the 5th delegates' conference of the General Nurses Group in Ho, which focused on: "Reducing Maternal and Infant Mortality and Morbidity." Major. Quashigah's comment was prompted by an interlude of Borborbor dance, a recreational dance among Ewes in mid -Volta, which kicked dignitaries and delegates into dancing or swaying their bodies in their seats.

Major Quashigah said besides the intangible gifts, Ghana and in fact Africa was so blessed with natural resources that there should have been enough for everybody. He commended professional groupings within the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for using African fabrics at their meetings. Apart from student nurses and a few others dressed in the nurses' traditional colours of green and white, the rest were in specially designed African fabrics representing the various groups making up the GHS. Major Quashigah said the decision that Ghana's delegation to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, would be dressed in attires made from African fabrics of one professional grouping on specific days won the admiration of other delegates.