Aspiring Parliamentary Candidate for Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Constituency, Alfred Obeng-Boateng, has donated 3,000 hand sanitizers and Veronica buckets towards the fight against coronavirus in the Constituency.
Making the donation through the Municipal Health Directorate on March 30, Mr. Obeng-Boateng, told constituents that prevention is better than cure.
The items, he said, are to be distributed amongst market women and men, police officers, Prison inmates, health workers at both government and private hospitals and clinics, the three Traditional Councils, the Executives of the Transport unions within the Constituency.
“At this moment, it is believed that we are all aware of the existence of COVID-19 and its concomitant effects on humanity hence I need not bother you on that,” he said.
According to him, “What is more important here is the preventive measures one needs to practice and the ingredients needed for that.”
“This is the moment society needs us most to extend a helping hand to others. Obviously it is not everybody who can afford to purchase a single piece of sanitizer easily to protect himself or herself,” he noted.
He added that “The government or state is playing her part and it is not out of order for individuals to contribute their quota in supporting the state to fight this deadly disease or pandemic that is wiping off humans on the surface of the earth and again has brought uncertainty to human life.”
“It is very sad to hear the number of lives lost globally to the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak though none has been recorded in our constituency (Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai) and the Western North as a whole; we are thankful to the Almighty God.”
“However, as the saying goes “prevention is better than cure”, and as part of my contribution towards the fight against this COVID-19 pandemic donate three thousand (3000) pieces of sanitizer and Veronica buckets through the Municipal Health Directorate today 30th March, 2020, to be distributed amongst our market women and men, police officers, Prison inmates, health workers at both government and private hospitals and clinics, the three Traditional Councils, the Executives of the Transport unions etc within the municipality.”
“My piece of advice is that let us use these pieces of sanitizers for its intended purpose and further obey all the measures laid down by the government and the health professionals in order to eliminate the virus from the country and beyond,” he said.
By Melvin Tarlue