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Sissala West District Assembly, MP support lepers to celebrate New Year

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The Sissala West District Assembly in partnership with the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Patrick Alhassan Adama have given food and financial assistance to 41 people with disabilities (PWDs) in the District for the New Year.

The MP for Sissala West, Patrick Alhassan Adama.

The support was to enable the beneficiaries who are lepers, visually and hearing impaired as well as speech disabled to celebrate the New Year a more dignified way.

The PWDs were given refreshment at the District Assembly before they were presented with their New Year package made up of rice, canned tomatoes, oil and envelopes containing ₵ 100.00.

Presenting the items, the DCE for Sissala West District, Mohammed Zackaria Bakor described the occasion of that reaching to the lepers as one of the great days of his life: “Today is one of the great days in my life and to Sissala West because since the inception of this Assembly, this gathering has never happened in Sissla West before.”

The DCE, Mr. Bakor presenting the gift to a recipient.

“What am I saying here, that is gathering people with disability in the aspect of leprosy, to thank them or to solidarise with them, to eat with them, to laugh with them, this is the first of its kind,” the DCE observed.

The MP making a presentation to one of the beneficiaries.

The District Assembly in collaboration and with the advice from the MP decided to do this and possibly to continue from here.

“We don’t intend making it an annual affair, we want to do it at least intermittently, if not at all, but at least twice in a year, starting from Wednesday, January 1, 2020”, Mr. Bakor affirmed.

Interaction with the lepers.

The MP for the area, Patrick Alhassan Adama who also helped in distributing the items said, “the significance of the exercise was to let people know that there are deprived people who live in our midst and it is essential that we as a society should also give them a helping hand from time to time.”

He continued that: “it is more significant because this is the end of the year, we have entered a New Year and let the people like the lepers here know that we do really care about them.”

The recipients of the gifts were beside themselves with joy for being remembered in a new year, saying the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament have rekindled the spirit of benevolence towards those who are neglected during festive periods and urged others to also uphold the gesture.

Offloading of the items.

The Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV Focal Person for Sissala West, Salley Inusah in an interview with the GBC, indicated that in the District, there are leprosy cases in almost all the five sub-districts. He pointed out that Jeffisi Sub-District has majority of the cases followed by Fielmuo Sub-District.

The TB & HIV Focal Person for Sissala West, Salley Inusah

Mr. Inusah said as result of stigmatisation, most people with leprosy are not willing to come out to receive treatment for the condition which is free.

Story filed by Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo.

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