Medical Women’s Association supports needy to sustain Coronavirus lockdown period

The Ghana Medical Women’s Association, in line with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, has supported about 150 needy persons at Akwatialine, a suburb of Kumasi, with food items to help sustain themselves during the period.

Dr. Mrs. Ijeoma Anyitey-Kokor, Ashanti Regional Chairperson, who presented the items, explained that the gesture was to help the needy in society like people living with disabilities and the vulnerable, or the less privileged in these trying moments.

According to him her, the initiative was from the contributions of individuals in the association to enable them come to their aid during the current pandemic, which had resulted in the lockdown, as the disease is rampaging the world.

She stated that the association is made up of females doctors who come together in rolling out social interventions to enable them reach out to the needy in society, adding that they had already embarked on many interventions like free medical screening, counseling and guiding the public as to how to live a healthy lifestyle.

She disclosed that the beneficiaries include the blind, head porters, especially the pregnant women among them, the deaf and the physically challenged, who were selected by the Asokore Mampong Municipal Director of Social Welfare.

She entreated the government, through the Ministry of Information, to embark on aggressive information dissemination to ensure that the educational message of the pandemic reaches out to the people, both in the cities and rural communities.

Dr. Ijeoma advised the citizenry to abide by the precautionary measures rolled out by the government and health professionals, which include hand washing with water and soap, the use of hand sanitisers to help protect themselves, and also to curb the spread of the Coronavirus.

Some of the items presented include 150 bags of rice, cooking oil, 150 boxes tin tomatoes, 150 bags of sachet water, gari, spaghetti, Makerel, 150 hand sanitisers, and other assorted items.

Osman Zblin, Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Head Porters Association, expressed his profound gratitude to the Association for the support in this pandemic period, and pleaded with them to always remember them and other needy persons in society.

He also pleaded with the government, again, through the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection, to also come to the aid of the head porters in Kumasi, as was being done in Accra, saying they had been suffering since the commencement of the lockdown.

By Ernest Best Anane / www.thechronicle.com