Atik Mohammed has slammed the Akufo-Addo government over their seemingly slow response to solving the outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis and H1N1 virus across the country.
Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Atik Mohammed stated emphatically that the current administration's "insensitive" posture on the issue is problematic.
His explanation is that President Akufo-Addo and his government are fully aware of the causes, symptoms and dangers of the disease but would wait for it to strike and they react to it.
He called on the government to be proactive and adopt the right measures to prevent the outbreak.
Atik Mohammed told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that there are vaccinations to prevent the outbreak and so wondered why school children in the country are not being vaccinated since the diseases pervaded the schools.
He asked the President to declare a "state of emergency" and deploy health practitioners to all secondary schools to vaccinate them against any further outbreak and also prevent a future recurrence.
To him, if the affected students or the deceased were to be a relative or child of the government officials; they would have dealt with the situation with much urgency.
“Is it because those children are not your children? It’s a problem that it appears this administration is not too serious about. And our children are dying. Our brothers and sisters are dying . . . We should send public health nurses to the secondary schools and vaccinate them,” he said.
He advised the current administration to begin a vaccination exercise if they so value the lives of the school children.
“There are vaccinations to stop it or prevent it. What is stopping this administration from making sure that every secondary school, it doesn’t matter the location of the secondary school; the public health nurses will go there to vaccinate the school children so that we would stop these rather unfortunate deaths we’re recording. I can’t just understand it. It shows that there is some sense of insensitivity . . .
“ . . let us begin to be proactive and stop coming to explain the causes of deaths. We need to stop the deaths before they even occur,” he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This one the young guys in the country who speaks with wisdom and courage. God bless you Man Atik. Thumbs up for you.
politicians talk too much...instead of you guys to sit done and think of how to make this country better your there making unnecessary comments. Remember the young one that are coming will make the something, by then you would be an old person what legacy are you leaving behind... then you sit done and complain that youth of today dont wont to work.
The vaccines must be tested well before given to avoid spreading the diseases.As soon as we hear vaccine then it is ok. it must be sent to a lab and tested
ghanaians heard of dumso must stop. why can't we do the same thing and give much publicity to the diseas are we being idiiioots or we are growing wiser. less important things are our topmost priorities due to corruption. npp administration is the most uselessss and incompetent administration. always hiding behind the media to propagate lies un achievable and imaginary things.using legal technicalities to remove EC, creating of more regions for chop chop and expanding tribal sentiments as against finding lasting solution to health issue to our future leaders. which should be the priority
Although I am a Christians, I always say in the eyes of even Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Muslims are better off than hypocrites Christians. A muslim will make his feelings known to you. These apologists christian organisation like the Christian Council and the Catholic bishops are embarrassment to Christ. I was wondering what they will have said if all these bad things happen during Mahamas time. Politicians in cassock. I salute Muslims
Where are the Christian Council, Catholic Bishops, Occupy Ghana. It long time i heard them oooh. Are they on hibernation or refusing to comments? Or they are enjpying the spoils of victory? hahahahahahah
this KUMACA thing is long overdue, I don't think we are giving it much priority. The so called celebrities in Ghana, what are they doing?
Very compassionate human being God bless you Atik.
I think this is second that I have heard something sensible from Atik. The first one was on Ayisi Boateng. Well done to you.
The man is feeding some body's children so why worry about your chn