TESCON undertakes clean up at Effia-Nkwanta Hospital

Sekondi Nov 17, GNA - Mr Paul Amponsah Agyawa, a administrator at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital, on Friday called on the public to assist health authorities to prevent the outbreak of diseases by keeping the environment clean.

He made the call during a three-hour clean-up exercise undertaken by 56 members of the Takoradi Polytechnic Chapter of the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON) at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital at Sekondi.

The students weeded the hospital and swept the streets. Mr Agyawa said the public should focus more on prevention of diseases than on the curative aspect and added that attendance at hospital has doubled since the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme. Mr Agyawa said malaria accounted for 33.8 per cent of attendance at the hospital, anaemia 31.7 per cent, Hepatis A and B, 9.3 per cent, and pregnancy related diseases 7.5 per cent. Mr Dominic Kwesi Eduah, vice president of the Takoradi Polytechnic Chapter of Tescon, said the clean-up exercise formed part of the activities to induct new members.

He said the chapter has donated food items and second hand clothing worth 1.5 million cedis to the Twin-City Special School.