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July 17, 2023
Member of Parliament (MP) for Afram Plains North Nana Efua Krosbi Betty Mensah is calling for much advocacy to be carried out to create much awareness on issues relating to tuberculosis.
The MP made this call on Friday, July 14, 2023 in Parliament when as part of revitalizing the TB caucus in Ghana’s legislature as a way of strengthening advocacy and communication.
According to her not too long ago she had a visitor in her house who showed symptoms of the disease, and so with her little knowledge in TB, she suspected the visitor had TB, hence she managed to keep the children away from getting close to the visitor.
According to her, having listened to a TB survivor who recounted what he went through after contracting TB and had to isolate himself from his family, she realized then that she made the right choice.
“If more people are getting the knowledge of TB as a nation we would go a long way to cut down on the statistics. Again, five percent of infected cases are children who are the future generation hence a lot of efforts is required to stump the spread.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com