Prisons Service Council mobilizes health NGOs to Ho prisons

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Prisons Service Council has mobilized health NGOs to the Ho prisons over the outbreak of scabies there.

Chairman of the Prisons Service Council, Rev. Steve Wengam has told Joy News that the NGOs will provide treatment for the inmates who have been infected with scabies.

The Ho Prisons has recently witnessed a scabies outbreak. A medical team from the Ho Polyclinic screened the one hundred and sixty-five (165) inmates for the disease; 80 per cent of them were diagnosed of the itchy and highly contagious skin disease.

Rev Steve Wengam says that despite the Council’s financial constraints they are doing their best to ensure the situation is brought under control.

“Some council members who are linked to some NGOs have arranged for them to go and provide some treatment for the inmates there,” he stated.

Rev. Wengam also urged corporate bodies, individuals, philanthropists and religious organizations to donate towards “Project Afiase’ which aims at helping ease congestion in Ghanaian prisons and building a prisons hospital.

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