Damongo, Savannah Region, Ghana, July 4, 2019//-The deputy Chief of staff of Ghana, Samuel Abu Jinapor has donated 100 vials of anti snake Vernon to the West Gonja hospital in the Savannah Region.
The donation was done on his behalf by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Secretary for Damongo, Karim Kusubari and the Communication Director of the party, Iddrisu Lamin with the Aid to the deputy Chief of staff.
Speaking at the short donation ceremony, Mr Kusubari said the the deputy chief of staff has appealed to the hospital to administer the vaccine to affected persons free of charge irrespective of the political affiliation of the victim.
He said Mr 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 yesterday in support for a Primary 5 pupil of the Tailorpe Primary School Miss Tahiru Aisha who was bitten by a snake last Saturday during the process of picking shea-nuts with her parents unable to raise GHC1200 to buy the anti snake vaccines to treat the little girl.
Little Aisha is currently on admission at the West Gonja Hospital receiving treatment with Lawyer Jinapor footing the bills.
Receiving the drugs on behalf of the West Gonja Hospital, the medical Dr Saadare Anlaagmen was full of praise for the deputy chief of staff and thanked him for his intervention especially at this time of the year that the hospital is recording higher cases of snake bites.
He said what the government supplies to the hospital are always not enough to cater for cases at the hospital.
The medical doctor used the occasion to advice patients to buy the vaccines from drug stores in the open market where each vaccine costs GHC300.
Dr Saadare appealed to Mr Jinapor to make more donations of the vaccines to the hospital to help them deal with the situation since the cost of the vaccine is always a problem to the patients.
A total of 50 cases of snakebites has so far been recorded in the West Gonja Hospital with one death case being recorded this year with the number expected to rise because of the farming and shea-nuts picking season still in progress as against 60 case in 2018.
Meanwhile, Mr Jinapor has promised to make similar donations to hospitals in the Savannah region in the coming days. Bole Hospital has been earmarked to receive some of the vaccines.
By Zion Abdul-Rauf
