Health education with creativity

Jesus , friend of little children “   But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”-Matthew 18:6 Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) defined children as persons under 18 years of age. Physical abuse of a child is defined by the World Health Organization as ‘that which results in actual or potential physical harm from an interaction or lack of interaction which is reasonably within the control of a parent or person in a position of responsibility, power or trust’.  The UNCRC places a duty on the state to promote the wellbeing of all the children within its jurisdiction and Ghana being a member of the United Nations (UN) is no exception. Unfortunately our children have been left to their own fate, when the voiceless cries, no one hears. Time and again we see these innocents...

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) COVID-19  is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The SARS-CoV-2 which causes Coronavirus Disease ( COVID-19) is a new strain of Coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans. It initially started in bats and later mutated to infect pangolins and then to humans. This virus was first identified in a group of people with pneumonia which was associated with seafood and live animal market in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The virus has since spread to other countries including South Korea, the United States, Italy, Australia, France, Egypt, Tanzania, Ghana, forcing the World Health Organization to declare it a pandemic. According to  http://www.worldometers.info , as at 18th March, 2020, about 198,770 cases had been recorded with 7,990 deaths and 82,779 recoveries, with fatality rate of about 3.5% but the case fatality rate differs from country to country. The virus can infect ...

The first twenty-four hours The first 24hours was excruciating and grueling. I had stayed home for a whole year after medical school and I didn’t remember a thing about pregnancies, but here I was doing a 24 hour duty at the obstetric and gynecological emergency. During the day time, my MO was around so he managed all the cases that came, all were cases of vomiting in pregnancy which I could have handled but as soon as it was 8pm and the MO left a lady with severe abdominal pain coupled with bleeding per vaginum was rushed in. She had had a seizure on her way to the hospital as well, in the taxi.The history given by the husband suggested that she was 7 months pregnant, had never been to ANC before and hence had no records. He also mumbled something about her being ‘epileptic whenever she was pregnant’. She was also not registered on the NHIS. Every detail of the history just dug my ‘confusion grave’ deeper. The woman had some serious conditions that could kill her unborn ...