A Deputy Chief of Staff, Abu Jinapor, has donated 100 veils of anti-snake Vernon to the West Gonja hospital.
The donation was done on his behalf by the governing New Patriotic Party’s constituency secretary for Damongo Karim Kusubari. Kusubari was in the company of Iddrisu Lamin, the party’s communications officer in the constituency and the aide of the Jinapor.
Handing over the vaccines to the hospital, Kusubari urged the hospital on behalf of the Deputy Chief of Staff to administer the vaccine to affected persons free of charge irrespective of their political affiliations.
Kusubari, said Jinapor’s attention was drawn to the absence of the vaccines in the hospital following an appeal for funds launched by Bole based Nkilgi FM on Wednesday in support of a primary 5 pupil of the Tailorpe primary school, Tahiru Aisha who was bitten by a snake last Saturday during the process of picking shea nuts with her parents unable to raise GHc1, 200 to buy the anti-snake vaccines to treat the little girl.
Aisha is currently on admission at the West Gonja Hospital receiving treatment with Jinapor footing the bills.
Receiving the drugs on behalf of the Hospital, the Medical Superintendent of the West Gonja Hospital Dr Saadare Anlaagmen was full of praise for the Deputy Chief of Staff and thanked him for his intervention especially at a time when the hospital is recording higher cases of snake bites.
Dr Saadare said what the government supplies to the hospital is always not enough to cater for cases received by the hospital. He said patients, therefore, buy the vaccines from drug stores in the open market with each vaccine costing GHc300.
A total of 50 cases of snake bites has so far been recorded in the West Gonja Hospital with one death case recorded this year. The number is expected to rise because farming and shea nuts picking season is still in progress as against 60 cases in 2018.
Jinapor has promised to make similar donations to hospitals across the Savannah region in the coming days. Bole Hospital has been earmarked to receive some of the vaccines.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Zion Abdul Rauf
