The lack of correct infirmary infrastructure, logistics, and medicines in Akuse Prisons within the Eastern Region are affecting the supply of high quality major healthcare to inmates.
Enclosed jail populations are most susceptible to infectious ailments and psychological well being points, which hyperlinks jail healthcare to problems with public well being, preventive healthcare, and hygiene.
Ghana’s Prisons Regulation 134 (1) enjoins the Prison Service to make sure that a medical officer shall if essential attend to the Prison every day and shall see any sick prisoner no less than as soon as a day in an infirmary.
However, many prions in Ghana would not have correct infirmaries whereas others lack primary medicine and logistics to ship this duty effectively.
ASP Daniel Odotei, the officer accountable for well being at Akuse Prisons says, the Akuse Prisons isn’t any exception to those challenges. He mentioned the Prisons has been improvising through the years utilizing a small room as an infirmary to ship primary healthcare providers to sick inmates
According to him, the present situation defeats the capability of the power to ship the perfect medical take care of the prisoners.
“The prison does not have any infirmary to admit inmates who may suffer a mild illness which will require first aid treatment and medication. Also, the current room that is being used as an infirmary is very small to occupy about three people at a time because of that some inmates do not receive proper first aid treatment when they are sick.”
Currently, Akuse Prisons have 9 feminine and 75 male inmates.
The quantity is anticipated to swell by the shut of the 12 months when Covid-19 infections within the nation scale back drastically.
He, due to this fact, known as on civil societies, philanthropists, and the federal government to come back to their assist.
He made this identified when the Eastern regional department of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana donated containers of important first assist medicines together with dewormers and ache reduction medicine to the Akuse Prisons.
Additionally, they donated alcohol-based hand sanitizers, baggage of rice, portions of milk, milo, gari, and baggage of sachet water, toiletries, skincare medicines, meals dietary supplements amongst others as a part of the celebration of World Pharmacists Day noticed on September 25 yearly.
Eastern Regional Chairman of Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Pharm George Attara Boye, mentioned Prisons healthcare is crucial to the reformation try therefore the society discovered it prudent to assist Ghana Prisons Service with medicine and meals objects to spice up healthcare and vitamin of the inmates.
“As part of our annual anniversary that we celebrate on 25th September every year by the pharmaceutical society of Ghana we decided to donate these essential items to Akuse prisons today, we donated to Koforidua prisons a week ago and we decided to extend it to Akuse prisons”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/ Kojo Ansah
