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Rising cases of infant mortality is forcing some residents of Cape Three Points in the Western region to adopt crude measures of marking children with dreadlocks to protect the lives of newborns.
In a town where many child deaths are blamed on supernatural causes, causes of infant mortality are being hidden under traditional beliefs.
Joy News’s Justice Baidoo, spent days in the town finding out the secrets behind the belief and why so many young lives are lost.
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