{"id":461116,"date":"2018-02-03T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/good-health-is-better-than-riches-dr-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:11:00","slug":"good-health-is-better-than-riches-dr-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/good-health-is-better-than-riches-dr-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Good health is\u00a0better than riches &#8211; Dr. Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Daniel Kaku<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/12686195.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bawumia Returns Healed.jpeg\" title=\"Bawumia Returns Healed.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"235\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr. Bawumia returned home from his medical leave on Thursday night<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517667060_749_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed gratitude to the Almighty Allah for healing him, for him, his little experience with health issues makes him realise the import of the saying;&#8217;good health is better than riches&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia returned home Thursday night after a 12-day medical leave in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>After announcing his return to work in a Facebook post on Friday, February 2, 2018, Dr. Bawumia joined the National Chief Imam Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu to observe the Friday prayers at the Central Mosque at Abbosey-Okai.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the congregation after the prayers, he said; \u201cHonestly, you have heard that I fell sick. But by the grace of Allah I\u2019m now well. As a result, I said we need to thank Allah for the mercies than me because he is the healer thus when Allah gives you good health you must thank him. That was why I was here to pray with the congregation and thank him [Allah] accordingly for the mercies bestowed on me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Observing that the recent ill-health he suffered, was a test from Allah, he\u00a0 stated \u201cgood health is better than riches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to Ghanaians from all walks of life, and religion for the prayers that they have done on my behalf when I took a medical leave. I\u2019m so thankful and grateful for their prayers and I\u2019m happy that I have come back Insha Allah [God willing] ready to continue work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go around, you take your health for granted but it is when you don\u2019t feel well that you would appreciate what God has actually given you&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/bao84for-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 48 updated by: 48 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 3 February 2018 Source: Daniel Kaku 2018-02-03 play videoDr. Bawumia returned home from his medical leave on Thursday night Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed gratitude to the Almighty Allah for healing him, for him, his little experience with health issues makes him realise the import of the saying;&#8217;good health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}