Municipal Health Director Dr. Emmanuel Yaw Affrelkum receiving the items from the First Lady. Looking on is Kwame Dzokoto
The First Lady Mrs Lordina Mahama has called on chiefs, elders and community leaders to support the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Integration monthly in the national sanitation day clean up exercises by helping to sensitize residents about the need to improve public health.
First Lady noted that health is a public concern since every individual needs to stay healthy in order to live a normal life so the surest way to get everybody involved in ensuring clean environment and healthy living is through regular clean up exercise.
The first lady made the call when she interacted with the people of Nsuaem and supported the Tarkwa Nsueem Hospital in the Western Region with medical supplies.
Mrs Mahama indicated that all over the world, preventive methods of promoting public health are being advocated instead of curative. In this regard, she believed it was important for the public to take an interest in improving their health by making sure their immediate surroundings were kept clean to promote healthy living.
The First lady believed this had enhanced healthcare delivery and had improved Ghana’s human development indicators significantly, placing Ghana only second to Cape Verde in West Africa. She was optimistic that health workers would support the effort government had embarked on.
The Aspiring Member of Parliament for Tarkwa Nsuem, Kwame Dzokoto explained that the donation to the hospital was due to a request made to the First Lady by him.
According to him he realised that the hospital lacked some facilities hence his request to the First lady to support the hospital. These he indicated were some of the things he and the NDC government would do when voted into power come December 7.
He expressed gratitude to the first lady for the donation saying the items indeed would be beneficial to all who visit the hospital.
The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Western Regional Minister, Paul Evans Addo and the National Women Organiser of the NDC, Hajia Zaynab Mahama, accompanied her.