Assin DHMT, WVG, treat Bilharzias-infected children

The Assin District Health Management team (DHMT) with assistance from the World Vision of Ghana (WVG) gave free treated to a number of school children in some communities in the district diagnosed with bilharzias.

The communities were Atintan, Dansame, Kushea, Assin Foso, Breman Breku, Praso, Akropong and Nkukuasa, all in the Assin North constituency.

The rest were Darman, Dosii, Hasowodze, Asamankese, Ankwaso, Jakai, Ongwa, Dawomako and Homaho.

Mr. Francis Armo-Annor, Assin District Manager of WVG area development programme, who said these on Monday stated that his outfit provided 33 million cedis towards the exercise.

He was addressing 58 pastors and church leaders from the district at a retreat at which prayers were said to seek God's intervention to reduce the spate of road accidents on the Assin Fosu highway and armed robbery in the country.

He said Bilharzias could cause pain and infertility if not treated on time and warned the people against swimming in water bodies that contain the bacteria causing the disease.

Mr Armo-Annor said the WVG would continue to assist needy communities, saying that the Vision had among other things constructed blocks of classrooms to help promote education in the district.

The Reverend Samuel Bessa-Simons, vice-president of the local pastors association appealed to his colleagues who have not joined the association to do so.